On Thursday 14 November 2002 6:45 am, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> : > The possibility of dynamically linking /(s)bin seems
> : > to recur pretty regularly. As libc continues to grow,
> : > this idea seems worth revisiting. However, I've come up
> : > with an alternative that might be worth considering.
> :
> : I'm open to patches for building /[s]bin as dynamic. If you have
> : time and can coordinate with [EMAIL PROTECTED] to build the patch, I
> : would appreciate it.
>
> % make NOSHARED=NO buildworld
>
> No patches necessary. We do this all the time at work, and it works
> fabulously. I do this for disk based systems that have / and /usr on
> the same file system too.
To do it right for split root/usr installations requires a few patches
though. The rtld and the libs required for /[s]bin need to move to /
and compat symlinks created from /usr. A suitable crunchgen'ed binary
for /recover would be useful too.
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