Subject: Re: Size of static binaries
To: None <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/23/1998 21:22:08
> Options:
> [...]
> c) Dyamically link everything. Nice performance gain, and the
> executables are now _smaller_ than 4.3. However, if you lose your
> shared libraries you are hosed until you can boot from some other
> media.
Hm, this brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a
while: exactly what is missing which prevents NetBSD/vax from
being able to create and use shared libraries, and how involved
and/or difficult would the changes be?
Last time I looked, the assembler did not know how to produce PIC
code (the -k option was not recognized).
- H=E5vard