On Wednesday 21 December 2005 04:41 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:41:01PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:31 pm, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > The other concern is does this force the entire crunch to require > > > > > > a working rtld now? If so, that would mean that this wouldn't be > > > > > > appropriate for something such as /rescue. If there were a way > > > > > > to statically link rtld into the crunch itself that would > > > > > > probably be ideal, but I'm not sure that is possible. > > > > > > > > > > No, just the dynamic bits require rtld. > > > > > > > > So you can still run /foo without rtld being present if foo doesn't > > > > need dlopen, etc.? It looks like you link the crunch with -o > > > > dynamic, so isn't the kernel going to complain when you try to exec > > > > it that it can't find rtld if rtld is missing? (Think about /rescue > > > > if your rtld is hosed and/or missing.) > > > > > > Sorry, you're correct of course. It's still useful in Adrian's > > > environment at least (because he puts rtld on an MFS). > > > > One workaround for this case would be to have two crunches, one for the > > pure-static stuff and one for the dynamic-using stuff. Alternatively, if > > you had a way to statically link the rtld functions into the crunch you > > could still use just one crunch. I just want to make sure we don't go > > turning this on for /rescue since that needs to work if rtld is hosed > > (unless we go the route of two crunches). > > Ah, OK. The new version attached ensures that if you don't use the > libs_so declaration, you get an identical binary to that produced without > the patch.
Sounds good (you could just go back to using -static in that case, but that's a minor detail). Still have TORTUOUS change in your diff. :) -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
