On Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:53:56 AM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 26/08/2020 17:52, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > Hi Padraig et al, > > > > in downstream openSUSE, we're considering to switch to building with > > > > ./configure --enable-single-binary=symlinks ... > > > > per default. Maybe SUSE's SLES would follow later. > > > > Are there any specialties to consider, or any drawbacks known? > > The main change that comes to mind could be startup time > and memory use, due to more shared libs linked to the main binary. > > For Fedora I created a coreutils-single package variant > (from the same source rpm), that one could install > in places where space was a consideration > (like embedded or container images etc.). > Since space is the main consideration, I also configured > --without-openssl --without-gmp for that package variant. > > cheers, > Pádraig
Worth to say that we do not use the `=symlinks` argument in Fedora, so it defaults to `--enable-single-binary=shebangs`. Kamil
