From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 21:10:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D796616A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.gnf.org (ns1.gnf.org [63.196.132.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3791143FB1 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: from EXCHCLUSTER01.lj.gnf.org (exch01.lj.gnf.org [172.25.10.19]) by ns1.gnf.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAG5AULc053334 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: from roark.gnf.org ([172.25.24.15]) by EXCHCLUSTER01.lj.gnf.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:28 -0800 Received: from roark.gnf.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roark.gnf.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAG5ASvL095394 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: (from gtetlow@localhost) by roark.gnf.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAG5ASZX095393 for current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:10:28 -0800 From: Gordon Tetlow To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20031116051028.GA30485@roark.gnf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="l21Zc9uzwusa2dXo" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Nov 2003 05:10:29.0017 (UTC) FILETIME=[F3B3E890:01C3ABFF] Subject: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:10:36 -0000 --l21Zc9uzwusa2dXo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I just committed a patch to change /bin and /sbin from statically to dynamically linked. If you don't like the idea of using a dynamically linked /bin and /sbin, now is the time to define NO_DYNAMICROOT in your make.conf. The reasons for doing so have been hashed over lots of times. But the short of it: 1) Much smaller /bin and /sbin. On i386, /bin and /sbin are 33 MB static. Dynamically linked, they are only 4 MB. 2) Proper support for NSS. This will finally allow you to use NSS modules and get things like usernames in ls -l working for modules that are dynamically loaded. -gordon --l21Zc9uzwusa2dXo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/twbERu2t9DV9ZfsRApntAKCMqnVzH1N0AOKpuz/02yiuQHWGigCfTzoN jZyKneno5DNRXhKB1v3W2Kk= =Ak57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l21Zc9uzwusa2dXo--