svn commit: r353937 - in head/share: man/man5 mk

[Shawn Webb]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 05:02:45PM +0000, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> Author: dim
> Date: Wed Oct 23 17:02:45 2019
> New Revision: 353937
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/353937
> 
> Log:
>   Build toolchain components as dynamically linked executables by default
>   
>   Summary:
>   Historically, we have built toolchain components such as cc, ld, etc as
>   statically linked executables.  One of the reasons being that you could
>   sometimes save yourself from botched upgrades, by e.g. recompiling a
>   "known good" libc and reinstalling it.
>   
>   In this day and age, we have boot environments, virtual machine
>   snapshots, cloud backups, and other much more reliable methods to
>   restore systems to working order.  So I think the time is ripe to flip
>   this default, and link the toolchain components dynamically, just like
>   almost all other executables on FreeBSD.
>   
>   Maybe at some point they can even become PIE executables by default! :)

They have been on HardenedBSD for a few years now. :)

Thanks,

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