From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 06:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22204 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 06:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22195 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 06:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03698; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:18:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <3573FBA3.705F9B21@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:18:27 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Terranson" CC: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: Dynamically Linked Exec's, Part II References: <01BD8DF4.FDC0F5A0@w3svcs.mfn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J.A. Terranson wrote: > > OK. I've got myself a *long* list of dynamically linked exec's which I have > deemed unacceptable for use on the target system (public area, used a lot > by kids, other misc. problems), and I want to replace them with statically > linked versions. Obviously this is a make-world type issue. In a nutshell > is there any reason why I cant simply make-world with some kind of option > to diable dynamic linking and them plug in the resulting executables? > > TIA > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org Static linking can introduce a few headaches, but if you've though things through - and that's what you want to do... ;-) You might be better of going to the directories for the individual programs, and recompiling them with the '-static' flag passed to cc, rather than trying to build a 'static-world' ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message