Re: Kernel modules in initrd

[Danny Milosavljevic]

> > P.S. How come glibc is in the initrd?  Shouldn't guile have statically 
> > linked it?
> > glibc is like 50000 kiB.  In that case saving 800 kiB is not really worth 
> > it...  
> 
> One of the packages that ends up in the initrd must be dynamically
> linked.  You need to find out which one it is.

It's because of bash-minimal.

$ grep -r 'bash-minimal' .
./gnu/store/38553wfz0jwlgbw13pk99xl79pbfx58d-guile-2.2.3/bin/guild:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/sh
./gnu/store/38553wfz0jwlgbw13pk99xl79pbfx58d-guile-2.2.3/bin/guile-config:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/sh
./gnu/store/38553wfz0jwlgbw13pk99xl79pbfx58d-guile-2.2.3/bin/guile-snarf:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/sh
Binary file 
./gnu/store/38553wfz0jwlgbw13pk99xl79pbfx58d-guile-2.2.3/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/popen.go
 matches
./gnu/store/38553wfz0jwlgbw13pk99xl79pbfx58d-guile-2.2.3/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/popen.scm:
  (open-pipe* mode 
"/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash" "-c" 
command))
Binary file 
./gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash 
matches
./gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bashbug:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/sh
 -
./gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bashbug:CFLAGS="
 -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' 
-DLOCALEDIR='/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/share/locale'
 -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -g 
-O2 -Wno-parentheses -Wno-format-security"
./gnu/store/kgaf671a9a76k0ql1pwwjxjbj80x22mj-xz-5.2.3/bin/xzdiff:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
./gnu/store/kgaf671a9a76k0ql1pwwjxjbj80x22mj-xz-5.2.3/bin/xzgrep:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
./gnu/store/kgaf671a9a76k0ql1pwwjxjbj80x22mj-xz-5.2.3/bin/xzless:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
./gnu/store/kgaf671a9a76k0ql1pwwjxjbj80x22mj-xz-5.2.3/bin/xzmore:#!/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
Binary file 
./gnu/store/lksm6f1ahvikxnwkfs34sabbb4f7209p-guile-static-stripped-2.2.3/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/popen.go
 matches
./gnu/store/lksm6f1ahvikxnwkfs34sabbb4f7209p-guile-static-stripped-2.2.3/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/popen.scm:
  (open-pipe* mode 
"/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash" "-c" 
command))