Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:41:53 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <p0600200bbbe94e00a24a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20031125160934.GH12248@over-yonder.net> References: <FPEBKMIFGFHCGLLKBLMMCEDCCDAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com> <3FBE8D92.6080205@acm.org> <20031123012222.GB11523@dragon.nuxi.com> <p06002003bbe5c0f30237@[10.0.1.2]> <20031123042635.GB677@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3FC16644.7070005@acm.org> <20031124114006.GA60761@dragon.nuxi.com> <p06002002bbe7fd7ac23c@[128.113.24.47]> <20031124210748.GG15294@wombat.localnet> <20031124224144.GC67578@dragon.nuxi.com> <20031125160934.GH12248@over-yonder.net>
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At 10:09 AM -0600 11/25/03, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >On Mon, Nov 24, 2003, I heard the voice of > David O'Brien, and lo! it spake thus: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003, Michael Edenfield wrote: > > > > > > Would it be possible, through some make.conf magic, for > > > the end-user to set extra programs to be put into /rescue > > > that are not typically there? > > > >> > RESCUE_EXTRAPRGS= usr.bin/vi usr.bin/fetch >> >> This list could easily need things added to librescue. > >If you can delay building the rescue stuff until after >everything else, you can use ldd(1) on the built binaries >for everything else and hash up the list from that. It is a bit more complicated than that, because programs may include embedded references to other files. So, I think some developer would *have* to do a little up-front work for any program that would be optionally-added to /rescue. Also, if you completely automate it, then a year from now someone will make a change to 'vi' which drags in a few extra libraries, and people will be blind-sided with a much larger /rescue. If someone is watching what happens, they could #ifdef-out that extra code for the /rescue version. I do like the idea, but to do it right *will* involve extra work for each optional program. I would gladly do that extra work for any programs that I cared to have in /rescue -- but personally I set up dual-boot systems, so I don't really care about any of them... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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