Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 18:13:19
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:05:57AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> in other words: if the motive is locale support in binaries in /sbin,
> we should solve it by providing dlopen() and friends to statically-
> linked binaries. solving it by avoiding statically-linked binary looks
> to me a wrong way (caveat: i'm no dynamic linkage guru).
As has been pointed out a few times in this thread, adding dynamic
support to static binaries is extraordinarily difficult (if not
impossible, depending on how much you're willing to fudge the
semantics).
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>