Hi, On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > The fact that apparently sometimes it's less bloated than other times > > doesn't really change anything fundamental, does it? > > Btw, does anybody know how/why libdl seems to get linked in too? > > We're not doing -ldl, and I'm not seeing any need for it, but it's > definitely there on fedora, at least. > > It seems to come from libcrypto. I can get rid of it with NO_OPENSSL, and > that cuts down on the number of system calls in my startup by 16 (getting > rid of both libcrypto and libdl). I wonder if there is some way to get the > optimized openssl sha1 routines _without_ that silly ldl thing. OpenSSL allows for so-called engines implementing certain algorithms. These engines are dynamic libraries, loaded via dlopen(). Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html