[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] coreutils: use single binary in symlink method, with merged usr

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 27 19:12:10 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:25:24 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> The symlink method is faster, since there is no shell fork/exec, and
> provides extra space savings. Keep using the shebang method without
> merged usr, because it makes easier to move binaries into other
> directories.

I'm not sure why we would want to make a difference between merged /usr
and non-merged /usr. Is the shebang method really useful/interesting?
Busybox is using symlinks, and that is just fine. Why not do the same
for coreutils?

In addition, having too many differences between merged /usr and
non-merged /usr is a test/maintenance burden.

Thomas
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