[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34197 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: misc/busybox top-level

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi Eelco,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> * By default, build a dynamically linked Busybox.  In the initrd we
>  need Glibc anyway, so there is no point in static linking.  This
>  saves about a megabyte from the initrd.

Just to comment, my guess is that busybox was statically build for the
bootstrap tools.  It does not matter much since we can override the
configuration.

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Nicolas Pierron
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