Why --disable-pie? I think this is main security issue here. And its even more 
dangerous because its used on static bins.

Looks like an interesting project. I would like to see support for other static 
libcs. In fact you should be able to use bins against bionic or againsg uclibc 
in the same system.

On 23/11/2011, at 16:58, Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Really cool!
> 
> And apparently it is actively developed and binaries can be found here:
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/bifrost/v7/
> 
> I also found it interesting with the talk linked on the page
> discussing the "guilty" components making it difficult to build an all-static 
> system.
> 
> ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/bifrost/seminars/workshop-2010-01-27/jens/Compiling_for_Bifrost.pdf
> 
> 
> On 11/23/11 15:39, Paul Onyschuk wrote:
>> I searched mail archives, but I did not find anything related to
>> Bifrost Linux, so I'm sharing this with you.
>> 
>> Bifrost [1] is a small Linux distribution for USB media.  What can be
>> interesting for suckless folks is that it is statically linked (no
>> /include and /lib contains only kernel modules and other small parts).
>> 
>> Build system [2] for Bifrost is available, I did not investigate it
>> further.  It seems that uClibc and dietlibc is used instead of glibc.
>> The bad is that build system is written in bash.
>> 
>> Anyway, maybe someone will find this useful.
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://bifrost.slu.se/
>> [2] https://github.com/jelaas/bifrost-build
>> 
> 
> 

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