Subject: Re: RFC: migration to a fully dynamically linked system
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/21/2001 22:14:06
On 21 Dec 2001 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

>
> | The argument doesn't hold up well, given the fact that only /bin and /sbin
> | are static.  If you want "static binary speed increases", then you can
> | simply rebuild the whole system yourself statically.  You can do it with one
> | mk.conf switch:  "MKPIC=no".  8-)
>
> If you really want to take advantage of the "static binary speed increases"
> you really want to crunchgen all of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and
> some of /usr/libexec into one huge binary so everything is always memory
> resident (plus you get the disk and memory saving of dynamic linking too).
> When ya gonna add a "MKCRUNCHGEN=yes" flag 8^)

	Actually this has a certain appeal for the 'ermergency static
	binaries' in /<something_like_stand>. With a dynamically linked
	/bin & /sbin and a single crunchgen binary for the emergency
	versions the disk usage might end up at pretty much par to where
	it is now...

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