From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 28 8:30:14 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D49837B71A; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA76059; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:29:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Will Andrews Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Wesley Morgan , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile References: <200102271125.f1RBPig49632@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010227150929.B72398@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010228102308.K767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Feb 2001 17:29:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:23:08 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews writes: > Why make make(1) statically linked? Because a) you need it to recover from e.g. libc fuckups and b) it forks and execs a *lot*, and according to Bruce (I haven't verified this myself) programs that do that (e.g. shells) perform better and consume less system resources if they're statically linked. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message