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On 01/25/2013 07:09 PM, Ian Kumlien wrote: > Sometimes, when you least expect it, a static binary is what you need to > rescue your data... Or just get a good enough handle on things to make > it work again ;) You certainly have a good point. I took q quick look on Fedora 18 and e2fsprogs has a separate static package but xfsprogs, jfsutils, and reiserfs-utils do not. On the other hand, those without a separate static package may be only static. I guess it depends how much bloat there would be with static only. For e2fsprogs, the static package only contains the static (".a") libraries. I believe your patch makes all of the binaries static linked. Is this necessary? 1) Btrfs fixes a lot of stuff on-the fly. 2) If you need to recover "standalone", rescue has btrfs. I did a quick check and most of the btrfs binaries are less than 200K bytes whereas the static versions are around 1.2M bytes. I know that disk space is cheap these days but does this solve a real problem? Gene > > "make static" is a gift to you, dear user with filesystem problems! > --- > Makefile | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 4894903..9148d0b 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -117,4 +117,8 @@ install: $(progs) install-man > $(INSTALL) -m755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) > $(INSTALL) $(progs) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) > > +static: CFLAGS += -static > +static: LIBS += -lpthread > +static: all > + > -include .*.d -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:11:37PM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > On 01/25/2013 07:09 PM, Ian Kumlien wrote: > > Sometimes, when you least expect it, a static binary is what you need to > > rescue your data... Or just get a good enough handle on things to make > > it work again ;) > You certainly have a good point. I took q quick look on Fedora 18 and > e2fsprogs has a separate static package but xfsprogs, jfsutils, and > reiserfs-utils do not. On the other hand, those without a separate > static package may be only static. > > I guess it depends how much bloat there would be with static only. For > e2fsprogs, the static package only contains the static (".a") > libraries. I believe your patch makes all of the binaries static linked. Yes, 'btrfs' is my main goal > Is this necessary? 1) Btrfs fixes a lot of stuff on-the fly. 2) If you > need to recover "standalone", rescue has btrfs. I have needed this on several ocations, f.ex. running a ubuntu livecd on one machine to try to fix something - compiling it on another machine and then copying it and running it on the affected machine. In some cases this has been to get a hold of a specific version of btrfs-progs > I did a quick check and most of the btrfs binaries are less than 200K > bytes whereas the static versions are around 1.2M bytes. I know that > disk space is cheap these days but does this solve a real problem? Non stripped btrfs here is 2.4 MB, stripped 1.1 MB - this is 64 bit gcc 4.7.2. My patch adds a compile target to allow you to build static binaries, it's something i have manually hardcoded in to various btrfs-progs. > Gene > > > > "make static" is a gift to you, dear user with filesystem problems! > > --- > > Makefile | 4 ++++ > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > > index 4894903..9148d0b 100644 > > --- a/Makefile > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -117,4 +117,8 @@ install: $(progs) install-man > > $(INSTALL) -m755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) > > $(INSTALL) $(progs) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) > > > > +static: CFLAGS += -static > > +static: LIBS += -lpthread > > +static: all > > + > > -include .*.d > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 4894903..9148d0b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -117,4 +117,8 @@ install: $(progs) install-man $(INSTALL) -m755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) $(INSTALL) $(progs) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) +static: CFLAGS += -static +static: LIBS += -lpthread +static: all + -include .*.d