[RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain

Chris Rees crees at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 26 12:31:07 UTC 2012


Oops, just replied privately before:
On Apr 26, 2012 12:39 PM, "Chris Rees" <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 26, 2012 10:36 AM, "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>
> 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, and statically linked make does not solve
> anything.
> >
> > Patch below makes the dynamically linked toolchain a default, adding an
> > WITHOUT_SHARED_TOOLCHAIN build-time option for real conservators.
>
> Nice idea, but sh etc al are built statically as /rescue/sh.  Will we see
> /rescue/ar  etc?
>
> Chris
>


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