Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I was experimenting with Linux Mandrake 8.2 recently and found > that the sln (statically linked ln) executable was missing. > > Recompiling the GNU fileutils 4.1 with LDFLAGS = -static created the > statically linked exectuable alright, but I wondered if: > > the statically linked ln executable should be included in the > util-linux package, and
as for mandrake, we should consider to either include sln in the util-linux or in the glibc as rh folks do. currently we don't do any of these alternatives. the question is : do we ensure rh compatibility (well i don't think there's much people requiring glibc for /sbin/sln :-)) or not ? we did put sln in glibc in the old days but chmouel removed it. gwenole, juan, have you some hints on that subject ? not a big deal ... > if there should be a configure option in GNU fileutils to create > statically linked executables of any of the programs for inclusion > in the /sbin directory, in addition to any dynamically linked > executables. hummm. currently it guesses if it must build sln depending if c compiler support static linking. i would rather prefer an option to *disable* static compiling for people who don't care about cpu time spent in compiling static programs. but not everybody rebuild its own util-linux. so just ignore that "problem". -- "on est en 2002 ?" (daouda) _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
