[Buildroot] [PATCH] The external toolchain can be used statically.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 06:26:52 Pkun wrote:

again, please do not top post

> What about checkbox "Don't copy toolchain libraries to the target dir" that
> depends on PREFERRED_STATIC. So users who use dynamic linking don't see
> this checkbox at all. But users who use static linking can manually choose
> to copy or don't copy shared libraries. It's usefull to create initramfs
> images at least. It's unlikely that someone make initramfs with complex
> soft.

that's up to Peter, but anything you add will need to include warnings such as 
ive already spewed

> Usually it will be a static busybox.

even a static busybox could try to load those libraries depending on the nss 
configuration.  nss handles simple things like user/group look ups in 
/etc/passwd and /etc/group to more complicated like host resolving.
-mike
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