Re: lib/53722: Static binaries don't support locales that are implemented using shared objects

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/53722; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, ca6c%bitmessage.ch@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/53722: Static binaries don't support locales that are
 implemented using shared objects
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:22:55 +0100

 On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:10:01PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 >  fly@planets ~> cc test.c -static -o static; cc test.c -o dynamic
 >  fly@planets ~> ls -lh dynamic static
 >  -rwxr-xr-x  1 fly  users  7.8K Nov 12 01:05 dynamic
 >  -rwxr-xr-x  1 fly  users  180K Nov 12 01:05 static
 >  
 >  a static system is going to be bigger
 
 You need to also count in size of shared libraries and you did not consider
 the "whole thing" being crunched into a single binary (crunchgen or
 busybox).
 
 However, shared libraries not being loadable from static binaries is
 not that unexpected - and some locales and pam being unavailable is
 a well known drawback of static linking.
 
 Not unsolvable (hi joerg!), but not high priority nor a real bug.
 
 Martin