Re: [RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain

From: Erik Cederstrand <erik_at_cederstrand.dk>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:01:08 +0200
Den 26/04/2012 kl. 11.35 skrev Konstantin Belousov:

> I think it is time to stop building the toolchain static. I was told that
> original reasoning for static linking was the fear of loosing the ability
> to recompile if some problem appears with rtld and any required dynamic
> library. Apparently, current dependencies are much more spread, e.g. /bin/sh
> is dynamically linked, and statically linked make does not solve anything.

What are the benefits, apart from using a bit less disk space overall?

Apparently, toolchain bits aren't considered important enough to be included in /rescue. Maybe they need to be, if the assumption currently is that the compiler will (almost) always work.

Erik
Received on Thu Apr 26 2012 - 10:01:12 UTC

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