[RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 30 22:54:40 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:03:17AM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Yes. You to have a statically linked /rescue/sh on board, so what's the
> point of /bin/sh being dynamic?

While you and I agree on this, the primary reason we went with a
dynamically linked root was for PAM and NSS support -- which are
dlopen'ed.  And thus requires using a shared libc.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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