From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: initrd: why do we need static linking?
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 11:33:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7wun2ua.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7ww438s.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Mon, 04 May 2020 08:34:59 +0200")
Hi,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> why do we need to link packages statically to include them in the
> initrd? Can’t we just copy the package closure into the initrd?
You can refer to any package in the initrd gexp and its whole closure is
automatically included in the initrd.
However, to minimize the size of the initrd (it must fit in memory,
uncompressed), we typically use stripped statically-linked packages.
HTH!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 6:34 initrd: why do we need static linking? Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-05 9:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-05-05 19:59 ` raingloom
2020-05-06 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
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