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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:54:38 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, toolchain@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain
Message-ID:  <20120430225438.GB60636@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <D92D6EA0-62F5-42A9-A802-8CF0D43A4D62@gid.co.uk>
References:  <20120426093548.GR2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <5BCE2E77-2B45-43B7-AB1F-6E6C13B87B34@gid.co.uk> <20120428031212.GE80419@dragon.NUXI.org> <D92D6EA0-62F5-42A9-A802-8CF0D43A4D62@gid.co.uk>

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:03:17AM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Yes. You to have a statically linked /rescue/sh on board, so what's the
> point of /bin/sh being dynamic?

While you and I agree on this, the primary reason we went with a
dynamically linked root was for PAM and NSS support -- which are
dlopen'ed.  And thus requires using a shared libc.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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