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Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211131723350.41379-100000@root.org>
            Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote:
: > The possibility of dynamically linking /(s)bin seems
: > to recur pretty regularly.  As libc continues to grow,
: > this idea seems worth revisiting.  However, I've come up
: > with an alternative that might be worth considering.
: 
: I'm open to patches for building /[s]bin as dynamic.  If you have time and
: can coordinate with lukem@netbsd.org to build the patch, I would
: appreciate it.

% make NOSHARED=NO buildworld

No patches necessary.  We do this all the time at work, and it works
fabulously.  I do this for disk based systems that have / and /usr on
the same file system too.

warner

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