[PATCH] Static linking binaries with uClibc

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 22:45:50 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:10:16PM +0100, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>> I'm not convinced it is actually that important to have the weak
>> behaviour of _stdio_init, for a number of reasons:

> Hello,
>
> I do have a complete system that does not use stdio.

>For various reasons, I'm switching over to uClibc.
> I'm currently bulding an initramfs with static binaries for an embedded
>device. (I'm not using busybox for now, although that could change.)
>
> I would very much appreciate NOT pulling in stdio into said binaries.

please try the workaround (it's not really our bug but in the toolchain)
from bugs.uclibc.org/1033 it should have the desired effect for all.

> Pulling in stuff people don't need is going the way of the glibc, and
>the uClibc FAQ explicitly claims that uClibc does things differently.
> Please make sure it keeps living up to that claim. Please do not be
>careless.

Be assured that we will not instroduce bloat, in contrast, we continue
to cut down on it.


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