Re: ar "zero" flag

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:

> That'd be a sad day for everyone, but especially those interested in  
> security, simplicity, elegance, software hygiene, predictability,  
> performance, and, most of all, embedded systems.

If you want to go through the pain and hassle of all that crap  
yourself, feel free to build the OS from source (and turn on whatever  
switch we use to enable building / installing the archive libraries).   
If you want to link the entire system statically, you have to do that  
anyway since by default the entire system is linked dynamically.  As I  
said in my previous message, we have to continue to support the  
mechanism for sun2.  However, I'm perfectly OK with saying "if you do  
this, we don't jump through hoops to make sure stuff like PAM works".   
Or threads.

> What a horridly binary vendor centric viewpoint you have these days  
> Jason.

Huh?  In what way?

-- thorpej