[RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain

[Bob Bishop]

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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.

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Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk




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