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Message-Id: <1365570853.18069.61@driftwood>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:14:13 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: vfprintf.c:(.text+0xc6c): undefined reference to
`__signbitl'
On 04/08/2013 03:41:28 PM, meres5@...ha.tmit.bme.hu wrote:
> Also Linux dropped the concept of static linking in practivce.
> Goodby kiss to
No it didn't. Ulrich Drepper, the ex-glibc maintainer, had a personal
grudge against static linking. But the community did one of this
gcc->egcs things and abandoned glibc in droves for eglibc until Ulrich
bogged off to The Bank of Evil (Goldman Sachs), and now less crazy
people are in charge of glibc.
It's going to take a while for the damage to work its way through, and
in the meantime smartphones are replacing the PC and kicking it up into
the server space like minicomputers and mainframes before it. (This
time the marketing people are calling this process "the cloud" and
trying to make "big iron is still lucrative" sound exciting.)
So far the smartphone has no use for glibc (android forbids GPL code in
userspace, and since the GPLv2/GPLv3 split means there's no "the GPL"
anymore to the point Linux and Samba can't share code desite
implementing two ends of the same protocol, nobody's fighting very hard
on behalf of the fragmented rubble of copyleft).
Some of us are trying to position musl as an upgrade/replacement to
bionic. That targets a niche with a billion deployed seats and 4x
growth potential, as opposed to a niche with 300 million deployed seats
(most of which are windows) that's already peaked.
So don't write of static linking just yet. :)
Rob
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