Hi Bill, On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:22 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > >Hello Roland, I know nothing about fpc, but does it really need to > >produce binaries statically linked with glibc ? > > It doesn't. Not all statically linked binaries are statically linked with > glibc. > > FPC is no GCC derivate, and uses syscalls directly, unless compiled with > FPC_USE_LIBC. All the standard pkg'ed static bins contain no libgcc/glibc > code. > > Keep in mind that non-gcc compilers (and non-C even) can't parse glibc > headers, so don't automatically adapt to minor changes. > > >I would expect to just > >link statically with the units and dynamically with glibc. This would > >be much less a problem. (In particular, if security bugs are found in > >glibc). > > Recompiling FPC with FPC_USE_LIBC defined will force the RTL to use libc, > however this is not advised.
OK, then I will upload m-tx just statically linked (against syscalls). If someone has got a better idea, please contact me directly. Thanks! bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
