From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 28 12:32:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8023537B718; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:32:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1SKRPl23394; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010228102308.K767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:30:57 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Will Andrews Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Wesley Morgan , obrien@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Feb-01 Will Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:46:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Yes! Brilliant! Thank you! And would you please consider applying the >> same treatment to make(1)? >> >> (actually, wouldn't a statically-linked make perform better than a >> dynamically-linked one, since it forks and execs so much?) > > Why make make(1) statically linked? I'll have to run some tests on your > thought about statically linked make being faster. Uh, for the same reason as, cc, ld, etc. are? So that if you hose your system (like libc gets trashed, which can happen.. having the kernel panic during installworld at just the wrong time can be bad juju) you can still bootstrap yourself back to a working system. I guess technically one could figure out all teh command lines for cc to rebuild a library if needed, but that would really suck. Having make available to do this would be a large timesaver. > -- > wca -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message