In article <STEVEV.93Apr13211918@miser.uoregon.edu>, stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
| In article <dmw.734673106@teal> dmw@teal.csn.org (Dave Warner) writes:
| 
|    caywood@wyvern.wyvern.com (John Caywood) writes:
| 
|    >Any other opinions on a minimal set of statically-linked utilities?
| 
|          Yes.  Build them yourself.  Not intended to be a flame
|          but all these sources are freely available, easily
|          compilable, easily statically linkable, easily installable
|          any way you please.
| 
|          Its YOUR system to do with as you see fit -- try it, you'll like it.
| 
| I'm certainly going to find the GNU file utilities and make
| statically linked versions of things like cat and ln.
| 
| My recommendation was that binary distributions of Linux, such as
| the SLS, ought to have a minimal set of statically linked
| utilities so that a problem with the shared libraries won't make
| the system completely unusable or unfixable.  It is very
| frustrating to find that one weak link and then discover that you
| can't fix it without something like a bootable rootdisk because
| the tool you needed to fix it broke along with everything else.

  Given that there are bootable rootdisks, and the SLS bootable plus a
rootdisk, I'm not sure that building a suite of oversize utilities makes
any sense when you can run from the floppy and do what you need.

  Sounds like a non-problem to me, I've occasionally whacked the Linux
partition so hard it wouldn't boot, and I've always been able to fix it
from the A1/A2 SLS disks.

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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345