From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 28 9:52:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C87137B719; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1SHnhc92654; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:49:43 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: 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 Message-ID: <20010228094942.H92203@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200102271125.f1RBPig49632@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010227150929.B72398@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010228102308.K767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:29:40PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:29:40PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Will Andrews writes: > > Why make make(1) statically linked? > > Because a) you need it to recover from e.g. libc fuckups Given a static toolchain, you can build a static make(1) easily enough. So this argument isn't a strong one. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message