David Engel writes ("Re: Linux init-time errors since elf upgrade"): > As someone has already noted, this was probably due to nm needing > libbfd.so and it not being on the root partition. Someone else > suggested putting libbfd.so in /lib. IMO, libbfd.so does not belong > in /lib and nm should be linked so as to not depend on it. If the new > maintainer (Siggy, I think) can't get to it soon, I will try later in > the week. > > BTW, now that I think about it, we should consider selectively > relinking a few other programs such that other, non-essential shared > libraries don't need to be in /lib (e.g. bash/readline).
Surely we want readline on the root partition, simply to save space in general ? Having a statically-linked version inside bash isn't going to help save space in /. I don't know about libbfd. Ian.