Re: resident buildworld

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:31:19AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:16:37 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger
> <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:12:49AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> > > I was thinking today about how we patch the vendor files during the
> > > buildworld process and the overhead added by running patch(1) all the
> > > time. Perhaps we should use resident(8) more during buildworld on
> > > program such as make, gcc, patch and other friends that are run
> > > several times.
> > 
> > I think those tools are statically linked. If not, they should.
> > 
> > Joerg
> 
> Why do you think they should be static binaries ?

Makes them less depending on the environment. We add NOSHARED for
the build and cross tool stage.

Joerg