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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!cbgw2.lucent.com!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!ssbunews.ih.lucent.com!news From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to link /bin (and /sbin) dynamically? Date: 16 May 1997 09:49:33 +0200 Organization: Lucent Technologies, Indian Hill Lines: 18 Sender: plm@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com Message-ID: <y7zyb9f26wi.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41010 Everything in /bin and /sbin is linked statically. Isn't this a waste of diskspace and also doesn't it slow down things a bit? OK, I know it is more reliable, but OTOH if I have a boot floppy and regular tape backups, I can always reinstall the system in case of a filesystem damage or in case of a stupid error (like rm /usr/lib/libc*)... Even Solaris and SunOS have /bin and the most part of /sbin linked dynamically. How can I change make world to do this? Is there a simple flag or do I really need to modify /usr/src/bin/*/Makefile? Are there executables (such as /bin/sh) that really *need* to be statically linked? -- Peter Mutsaers | Lucent Technologies, Network Systems plm@lucent.com | Huizen, the Netherlands