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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] Call for testers (was: mouldering development branches)
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:45:04 -0300

On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:44:19 -0500
Tommy Boatman <tboatman_smgl AT live.com> wrote:
> I'm in the middle of rebuilding my systems with --as-needed and not
> encountering any issues related to it thus far. I’ll provide a
> complete report once it’s done, and then spin up the prometheus
> systems to further test randomly. The current system is built
> against the master git of a few weeks ago.
>
> I have found one glitch, not related to –as-needed, with regards to
> gmp and gawk. Gawk will use –lmpc –lgmp if it finds mpc linked
> against gmp (evidenced by the configure log). Sorcery uses gawk, so
> when gmp is dispelled for install, the awk commands in sorcery fail
> (cannot find libgmp.blah.blah). Resurrecting gmp is the only option
> at this point. This brings up a philosophical debate as to whether
> base tools used by sorcery should be statically linked. Anyone that
> recasts/updates gawk after libmpc/gmp are installed can run into this.
>

Could we replace gawk and friends with a static busybox build?




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