Re: Stop shipping static libraries for NetBSD

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I guess that begs the question... "So?"
> >
> > What is so inherently good about static binaries?  I can think of a
> > few reasons why they're not so great.  Please tell me my they're so
> > wonderful.

% file /rescue/atactl
/rescue/atactl: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
NetBSD 3.0,
statically linked, stripped
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Was that a proposal to abandon /rescue as well?
I second the idea that for embedded applications, statically linked things 
are useful.

Think crunchgen (which we actually use for sysinst, too).


 - Hubert