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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:22 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1 Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1obj Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1plus Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020408114522.B89784@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CB170B4.4090607@Leidinger.net>; from Alexander@Leidinger.net on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:28:04AM %2B0100
References:  <20020407162550.GE67968@sunbay.com> <20020408165120.S5876-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020408004154.A66483@dragon.nuxi.com> <3CB170B4.4090607@Leidinger.net>

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > My reason for a static cc/cpp0/cc1 has nothing to do with speed, but
> > rather to allow one to recover from a bad libc.so or ld-elf.so.1.
> 
> Even if I got hit by a broken ld-elf.so.1 yesterday I think your intend 
> is questionable.

Uh, DON'T tell me my own experiences are wrong!
Having a statically linked compiler has saved my ass more than once on the
Sparc64 effort.  Earlier I was using shared binaries (compiled from FSF
sources), and got bit several times by a bad libc.so.

> A committer should be able to recover either by 
> compiling it on another machine/OS(-version),

T ALEXANDER SEND ME ANOTHER SUN BOX K PLZ THNX.

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