RE: Powerpc-eabi, bootstrap compilers...

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: M. R. Brown [mailto:mrbrown@0xd6.org]
>Sent: 19 October 2001 12:18

>That's why distributions should ship with static root ...

  Heh, it's also why the slogan of dynamically-linked vital system libs
should be "Now compatible with all the worst features of Windows".

  Given the ever-decreasing cost of both RAM and disk storage and the ever-
increasing presence of broadband connections these days, the cost-benefit
ratio of smaller files as against all this grief and potential reinstall-
from-a-system-disk-ness the dynamic linking causes has IMO shifted so far as
to make dynamic linking a total albatross.  I'm sticking with static.  I
don't really understand why there is a trend toward increasing amounts of
dynamic linking (e.g. libgcc) in the direction gcc development is taking.

	    DaveK
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