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Re: core recovery tools, apt-get, and dpkg should be static



On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote:

> responses. Here are refutations of many of the common counter-arguments:

You forgot:

"The smallest GLIBC static binary is 200k and that number seems to double
every release!"

I know the BSD's come in with about a 40k overhead for a small static
binary, Solaris is probably similar. glibc on the other hand ...

echo "int main() {}" > t.c; gcc t.c -static; strip a.out;ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jgg      users      198868 Aug 16 11:09 a.out

Jason


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