Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:20:41 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc size Message-ID: <3DC0D9C9.CC889413@mindspring.com> References: <20021030214158.CB6EA2A88D@canning.wemm.org> <20021030221417.J22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <20021031053202.GA26280@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > > > We've been over this before. To make this work right, we need to make > > > /bin and /sbin dynamically linked. NetBSD's /rescue/* approach would > > > solve the "oops!" and other foot shooting problems. > > > > Yes please. Our root filesystem space requirements are too high, IMHO. > > Why is it absolutely necessary to dynamically link everything just > to move the resolver out of libc? Because ELF supports linking a shared library to another shared library, which will automatically get you the appearance of the historical "libresolv is integrated into libc". But it does not support the linking of a static library to a static library, or a static library to a shared library, the same way. The ELF specification never expected things to be linked statically. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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