From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 15 13: 9:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF3737B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:09:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D8843E77 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:09:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 47483 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Nov 2002 21:09:36 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:09:36 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c In-Reply-To: <20021115202751.GJ50692@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Matthew Dillon [021115 12:17] wrote: > > :Will the knobs allow one to link /bin and /sbin against full blown > > :libc? That would be nice as we can then start using pam and user > > :management in / with dynamic modules (finally!). > > : > > :-- > > :-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > > > > I think that should be a goal. I think something like this: > > > > USE_MINIC=YES Link against the mini-C library. > > > > USE_SHARED_BIN=YES Link against a shared libc or mini-C rather > > then linking statically. > > Moiving forward I think it makes the most sense for us to maker /s?bin > dynamically linked against libc by default with options for linking > statically or dynamically against libc or mini-libc via make.conf. I appreciate your interest but want to avoid a war so we'll just say that the _option_ to link them dynamically will be added but the default will be left up to a separate discussion, once things are well-tested in both configurations. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message