Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please don't use IUSE=static-libs unless really necessary
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:43:16
Message-Id: 1316675704-sup-4224@ittemni
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please don't use IUSE=static-libs unless really necessary by Mike Frysinger
1 Excerpts from Mike Frysinger's message of 2011-09-19 18:05:39 +0200:
2 > On Monday, September 19, 2011 11:35:09 Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:11:31 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > > > by that token, i'll go ahead and remove glibc's static
5 > > > > > libraries since upstream doesn't even support static linking
6 > > > >
7 > > > > I'm probably ignorant so you'd have to elaborate more on that to
8 > > > > make me see a problem there.
9 > > >
10 > > > think about it a little bit. your system is using static binaries
11 > > > right now, and considering you like to push systemd + initramfs so
12 > > > much, i would have thought you'd realize the implications more
13 > > > quickly.
14 > >
15 > > Hm, I seem to fail to notice other static binaries than busybox. And
16 > > I don't think I use any specific configuration which makes me need
17 > > static binaries;
18 >
19 > by default, tools that are needed to easily recover a system
20 > (busybox/cryptsetup/lvm/etc...) are IUSE=+static, and every binary
21 > that goes into initramfs is statically linked.
22
23 I'd like to notice that's not the case for dracut.
24
25
26 --
27 Amadeusz Żołnowski
28
29 PGP key fpr: C700 CEDE 0C18 212E 49DA 4653 F013 4531 E1DB FAB5

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature