On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, David Daney wrote:
glibc does not work very well statically linked. So I don't think that is a good idea.
People keep saying that....but never saying in what way doesn't it work or why. The only hint I have seen as to why that may be is Internationalized Error messages may get screwed up. If that is so that is the very least of my concerns since the team is all english.
Perhaps you should build the toolchain on the oldest distribution that will have to be supported. An alternative is to have a build for each incompatible host system.
So do something that takes several hours to build on my latest and greatest and fastest 3.4Ghz 1Gb ram dual core system..... And build it on every system in the team... Including the bloke with the 100Mhz celeron & 256 MB ram. Hmm. Hmm. One of the reasons for having a single "blessed" build of the compiler is it is one less variable to check & account for when the inevitable "Works for Joe, but Not For John" class of bugs arises. Sigh! Why is this so hard? Why have we taken a leap back into the dark ages where we cannot share a user space program without either recompiling or having identical systems. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@xxxxxxxxxx New Zealand
