Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Steve Willer wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does anybody know of any utilities that can convert
> executables from dynamically-linked to statically-linked without
> recompiling? It's theoretically possible, because the loader has to
> retrieve the libraries, do fixups, etc., anyway.
I'm not sure it is possible, because unlike a .a file, a .so only has
entry point information, not object size and interelationships - so there
is no way to remove unaccessed functions. The best you can do is take the
executable and libc and combine them together to produce a 1 meg monster
:>
Jason
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