Den 26/04/2012 kl. 11.35 skrev Konstantin Belousov: > I think it is time to stop building the toolchain static. I was told that > original reasoning for static linking was the fear of loosing the ability > to recompile if some problem appears with rtld and any required dynamic > library. Apparently, current dependencies are much more spread, e.g. /bin/sh > is dynamically linked, and statically linked make does not solve anything.
What are the benefits, apart from using a bit less disk space overall? Apparently, toolchain bits aren't considered important enough to be included in /rescue. Maybe they need to be, if the assumption currently is that the compiler will (almost) always work. Erik_______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
