On Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:38:03 am Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 26 Apr 2012, at 10:35, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > 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 [etc] > > That seems like a bad mistake, because it would prevent even booting single- user if rtld/libraries are broken.
You could use /rescue/sh as your single-user shell. Of course, that would perhaps let you still be able to recompile things if you had a static toolchain. :) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
