Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:52:01 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, toolchain@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain Message-ID: <201204260752.01127.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5BCE2E77-2B45-43B7-AB1F-6E6C13B87B34@gid.co.uk> References: <20120426093548.GR2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <5BCE2E77-2B45-43B7-AB1F-6E6C13B87B34@gid.co.uk>
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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
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