Mostly static binaries with crunchgen

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:58 am, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:29:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > The other concern is does this force the entire crunch to require a
> > > working rtld now?  If so, that would mean that this wouldn't be
> > > appropriate for something such as /rescue.  If there were a way to
> > > statically link rtld into the crunch itself that would probably be ideal,
> > > but I'm not sure that is possible.
> >
> > No, just the dynamic bits require rtld.
> 
> So you can still run /foo without rtld being present if foo doesn't need 
> dlopen, etc.?  It looks like you link the crunch with -o dynamic, so isn't 
> the kernel going to complain when you try to exec it that it can't find rtld 
> if rtld is missing?  (Think about /rescue if your rtld is hosed and/or 
> missing.)

Sorry, you're correct of course.  It's still useful in Adrian's
environment at least (because he puts rtld on an MFS).

Ceri
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