busybox --gc-sections thing

[Rob Landley]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 9:58 am, Jason Schoon wrote:
> Well said.  There really isn't much of a reason to statically link with
> glibc.  If you do, you can live with seeing Busybox spit out some warnings.

Last I checked the warnings didn't actually _fix_ anything, so the resulting 
binary is still broken (thanks to glibc's stdio going "boing" with 
gc-sections), and when you redirect output it disappears.

Statically linking against uClibc works.  With glibc, the only option is to 
disable --gc-sections.  (And given how bloated statically linking against 
glibc already is, the difference in the resulting binary size is a rounding 
error.)

Rob
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