On 4 August 2015 at 22:58, Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-08-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com>: >> I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published >> during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that >> doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues. >> >> Background: I need to solve the problem of not offering pre-linked >> binaries that combine GPLed portions with other licensed portions... >> but to come up with a neat solution, I'd like to rely on a free ELF >> linker. >> >> Suggestions? > > http://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/wiki/Home/
I've tried it. It works, but it isn't at advanced at just picking the required .o's than gold. All binaries I create with the elftoolchain's experimental ld are about 25% larger, example: ld -s -static posix.o utmp.o toolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/crt1.o -Ltoolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/ -lc -o utmp2 strip -a utmp2 vs. x86_64-linux-musl-ld -s -static posix.o utmp.o toolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/crt1.o -Ltoolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/ -lc -o utmp3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 anselm anselm 42816 Aug 6 07:45 utmp2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 anselm anselm 33648 Aug 6 07:44 utmp3 I need to investigate further. But probably I will rather go with a static gold linked against glibc to produce smaller binaries and to be GPL compliant.... BR, Anselm
