On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Doug Rabson wrote: > > : 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.
I had some local patches that did a subset of this -- moved ld.so to /lib, as well as installing shared libraries to /lib instead of /usr/lib for the base system. I seem to recall I also had to tweak some defaults in ld.so or rtld or the like, though. I agree that the right path to support fully dynamic systems properly is to adopt the approach taken by NetBSD: provide a decent /recover with crunchgen, etc. I do use fully dynamic stuff for some local test boxes, makes upgrading libc code for development purposes much easier, as well as supporting dlsym() for /sbin, which is very useful in my environment. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
