Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] Fix static linking for cURL and SDL

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, All,

On Monday 03 September 2012 18:38:48 Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 September 2012 17:28, Yann E. MORIN <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 September 2012 17:44:51 Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Personally I think it might indeed be a good idea to just say
> >> "statically linked softmmu isn't supported" and forbid it, unless
> >> somebody has a good use case for it...
> >
> > I personnally have such a use-case: provide run-everywhere qemu softmmu
> > binaries that do have minimal requirements on the distro they'll be
> > running on, especially when the distros can be very different (in kinds
> > and in age).
> 
> ...have you audited all of qemu's library usage to confirm that it
> doesn't use any of the bits of glibc that don't work in the static
> linking scenario? I'm reasonably confident that the linux-user binaries
> are OK, much less so for the system binaries...

I guess you mean the nsswitch stuff?

I'm using a uClibc-based toolchain that does not have such libs, and allows
a truly static link.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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