Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:53:17 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build failure: DOSCMD uses -Bstatic -lX11 Message-ID: <19970825165317.23381@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <19970824005920.HA61511@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Aug 08, 1997 at 12:59:20AM %2B0200 References: <199708230948.CAA06849@palrel1.hp.com> <19970823160411.14726@right.PCS> <19970824005920.HA61511@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Aug 08, 1997 at 12:59:20AM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>
> > It doesn't require X11 to be built, per se. However, X11 support is a
> > compile-time option, so I tried to get smart, and automatically compile
> > in X11 support if ${X11BASE} was present. The other option would be
> > to always compile it without X, which I dislike.
>
> Why do you compile it static at all?
Because the doscmd program needs to run above the 1M boundary. Think of
it as a userland kernel. :-) This means that I can't (AFAIK) simply use
the ld.so routines in crt0.o, and compiling static was easier than writing
a custom crt0.
--
Jonathan
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