HEADS UP: dynamic root support now in the tree

Gordon Tetlow gordont at gnf.org
Sun Aug 17 13:25:58 PDT 2003


On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> I just got through with my commit spree to enable users to build /bin
> and /sbin dynamically linked. To do this required a fair amount of
> tweaking and moving around libraries and such dangerous equipment as
> rtld-elf. If you have any systems that you are dearly in love with,
> now is not the time to cvsup. Please wait until any potential issues
> are shaken out of the tree. I've done as much testing as I can, but
> as experience has shown me, there are likely to be issues.

Just to clear everything up. A dynamically-linked /sbin and /bin is
still not the default. In order to build a dynamically-linked /sbin
and /bin requires you to define WITH_DYNAMICROOT. Sorry for the
confusion.

-gordon
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