Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:01:08 +0200 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: toolchain@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain Message-ID: <DC78B021-4258-43BB-8151-C4EF96BC2D00@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <20120426093548.GR2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <20120426093548.GR2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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Den 26/04/2012 kl. 11.35 skrev Konstantin Belousov: > I think it is time to stop building the toolchain static. I was told = that > original reasoning for static linking was the fear of loosing the = ability > to recompile if some problem appears with rtld and any required = dynamic > library. Apparently, current dependencies are much more spread, e.g. = /bin/sh > is dynamically linked, and statically linked make does not solve = anything. What are the benefits, apart from using a bit less disk space overall? Apparently, toolchain bits aren't considered important enough to be = included in /rescue. Maybe they need to be, if the assumption currently = is that the compiler will (almost) always work. Erik=
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