On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote: > responses. Here are refutations of many of the common counter-arguments:
You forgot:
"The smallest GLIBC static binary is 200k and that number seems to double
every release!"
I know the BSD's come in with about a 40k overhead for a small static
binary, Solaris is probably similar. glibc on the other hand ...
echo "int main() {}" > t.c; gcc t.c -static; strip a.out;ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jgg users 198868 Aug 16 11:09 a.out
Jason
