In message <20000313120433.A2244@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>i recognized that almost at once, but it still struck me as weird.  i
>tend to think along the lines of "things in /sbin are completely
>self-contained, using nor needing any external help".

Yeah, it's a common expectation.

>>It was bizarre, and it's long gone.  'cc' is 'egcs'.

>and is everything still build statically by default?

Yes, see below.

>>Of course, they still have the weirdest shared library scheme I've ever
>>seen; the system shared libs are shared, but are *NOT* dynamically linked,
>>so they've got special magic to use maps.  You can use dynamic versions
>>of 'em, but they recommend the static shared libs, because they're
>>apparently faster.

>oh...is *that* why everything i was building seemed to be ending up
>static?  (whimper)

Yup.  Performance hack.  Fairly good one, actually, once you know about
it.

-s