[dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Onyschuk
Skip this message if you're not interested in Stali Linux concepts and static linking in general. Apologies for my poor writing skills in English. BACKGROUND I'll not write about advantages and disadvantages of static linking, you can find informations about that on Stali web page. Moreover cre

[dev] Re: Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Paul Onyschuk writes: > I compiled almost whole Xorg (statically linked) from pkgsrc. Last time I checked (6 months ago perhaps), it was not possible to build a full Xorg server without dynamic linking. Only TinyX works. The clients are no problem, they just get very fat. -- Christian Neukir

Re: [dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Paul Onyschuk wrote: # find / -name "*.so*" | xargs rm But, think of the hyphens! Not that this should cause any trouble with existing rm implementations, but you'll never know what syntactic extensions GNU might come up with for userspace in-rm chroot filesyste

Re: [dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Thanks for a great reading. :) On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Paul Onyschuk wrote: I compiled almost whole Xorg (statically linked) from pkgsrc. Only missing part is xkeyboard-config, which depends on intltool. Intltool requires XML Parser module for Perl. I used static build of Perl, so dynamic

Re: [dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:55:50PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Do you intend to compile all modules you might use into a single perl > binary? Or just enough to compile stuff, and then stick to shell > scripts and Lisp? Perl has facilities to easily embed modules. In my opinion, the be

Re: [dev] Re: Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Onyschuk
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:30:05 +0100 Christian Neukirchen wrote: > > Last time I checked (6 months ago perhaps), it was not possible to > build a full Xorg server without dynamic linking. Only TinyX works. > > The clients are no problem, they just get very fat. > Do you remember what was the is

Re: [dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread markus schnalke
[2012-02-14 21:55] Bjartur Thorlacius > > Thanks for a great reading. :) Full Ack. meillo

Re: [dev] Adventures with static linking

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Onyschuk
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:49:51 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > But, think of the hyphens! > > Not that this should cause any trouble with existing rm > implementations, but you'll never know what syntactic extensions GNU > might come up with for userspace in-rm chroot filesystem hierarchies.

[dev] ... and then i go and spoil it all by saying something stupid ...

2012-02-14 Thread Nick
Hi suckless, It's valentines day, and so naturally I'm thinking about software, and I've been ordered by my cultural upbringing to thing about things I love. So I say thank you, good people, for changing the way I think about software, teaching me a great deal about reading and writing code

Re: [dev] ... and then i go and spoil it all by saying something stupid ...

2012-02-14 Thread hiro
Fuck off. (It's the same I told my gf btw)