<p dir="ltr">On 14 Sep 2016 5:40 p.m., &quot;Patrick Williams&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:patrick@stwcx.xyz">patrick@stwcx.xyz</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The /sbin/fsck.ext[234] programs currently installed are all<br>
&gt; the same binary as e2fsck.  The package provides an option to<br>
&gt; have fsck.ext[234] be symlinked to /sbin/e2fsck instead.  This<br>
&gt; reduces the uncompressed footprint of this package by ~1MB on ARM.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They were all hardlinks last time I checked not long ago. Why do hardlinks increase the footprint?</p>
<p dir="ltr">A.</p>
<p dir="ltr">&gt;<br>
&gt; Add --enable-symlink-install to EXTRA_OECONF to enable.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams &lt;<a href="mailto:patrick@stwcx.xyz">patrick@stwcx.xyz</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; ---<br>
&gt;  meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a> | 3 ++-<br>
&gt;  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a> b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
&gt; index f4855bc..d6db612 100644<br>
&gt; --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
&gt; +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
&gt; @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = &quot;v(?P&lt;pver&gt;\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)$&quot;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;  EXTRA_OECONF += &quot;--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} \<br>
&gt;                  --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-libuuid --disable-uuidd \<br>
&gt; -                --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds&quot;<br>
&gt; +                --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds \<br>
&gt; +                --enable-symlink-install&quot;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;  EXTRA_OECONF_darwin = &quot;--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} --enable-bsd-shlibs&quot;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; 2.9.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; _______________________________________________<br>
&gt; Openembedded-core mailing list<br>
&gt; <a href="mailto:Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org">Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org</a><br>
&gt; <a href="http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core">http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core</a><br></p>