Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/27/2002 11:42:32
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:06:30AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  | In article <20020826062039.GE20125@wasabisystems.com>
  | lukem@netbsd.org wrote:
  | 
  | >     +	/rescue/* recovery tools provided. These are a statically linked
  | >     	crunchgen(1)-ed copy of the program in /bin, /sbin, and a few
  | >     	others, to allow you to recover a system in the same manner that
  | >     	you can with today's statically linked /bin and /sbin.
  | 
  | I'm afraid there are still objcopy-crunchide issues on mips.
  | Can we build the crunched rescue binary properly on all ports?

I'm working with some MIPS toolchain people on working around this issue. 
It also needs to be solved to support the pmax miniroot, for example.

I'm not aware of crunchgen issues on other platforms (they may be
there, I just haven't heard about them).