Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:10:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug or feature: "make world" static linking Message-ID: <20011005181021.A84073@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0110052037180.32593-100000@www.everquick.net>; from eddy%2Bpublic%2Bspam@noc.everquick.net on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:44:34PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0110052037180.32593-100000@www.everquick.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > Greetings all, > > While playing around with 4.4-R, I finally did my first 'make > world'. Even after running 'strip' on the resultant binaries, I > was puzzled by their large sizes compared to -RELEASE. > > After investigating with 'ldd', it was pretty obvious that the > binaries had been _statically_ linked. Easy enough to change > by adding "-Xlinker -Bdynamic" to CFLAGS. > > However: > > Static linking for /bin and /sbin is obviously the sane choice, > but I'd prefer dynamic linking for anything in /usr. Bug, > feature, or just me cutting my teeth? It shouldn't be doing this unless you tell it to. What other local settings have you changed? Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7vln9Wry0BWjoQKURAjcGAKD04H4rrrfpVH5m0fXFvZrKPxeC0QCg+Ur5 U9qWZ8+0LmpFstHKnkLcuPI= =77UF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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