Re: [RFC] Un-staticise the toolchain

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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.

- --
Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk

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