Peter, All, On Monday 03 September 2012 18:38:48 Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 September 2012 17:28, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1...@free.fr> wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2012 17:44:51 Peter Maydell wrote: > >> Personally I think it might indeed be a good idea to just say > >> "statically linked softmmu isn't supported" and forbid it, unless > >> somebody has a good use case for it... > > > > I personnally have such a use-case: provide run-everywhere qemu softmmu > > binaries that do have minimal requirements on the distro they'll be > > running on, especially when the distros can be very different (in kinds > > and in age). > > ...have you audited all of qemu's library usage to confirm that it > doesn't use any of the bits of glibc that don't work in the static > linking scenario? I'm reasonably confident that the linux-user binaries > are OK, much less so for the system binaries...
I guess you mean the nsswitch stuff? I'm using a uClibc-based toolchain that does not have such libs, and allows a truly static link. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'
