On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> While playing around with 4.4-R, I finally did my first 'make
> world'. Even after running 'strip' on the resultant binaries, I
> was puzzled by their large sizes compared to -RELEASE.
>
> After investigating with 'ldd', it was pretty obvious that the
> binaries had been _statically_ linked. Easy enough to change
> by adding "-Xlinker -Bdynamic" to CFLAGS.
>
> However:
>
> Static linking for /bin and /sbin is obviously the sane choice,
> but I'd prefer dynamic linking for anything in /usr. Bug,
> feature, or just me cutting my teeth?
It shouldn't be doing this unless you tell it to. What other local
settings have you changed?
Kris
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