Re: Is --enable-single-binary=symlinks a problem for a distribution?

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:53:56 AM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 26/08/2020 17:52, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > Hi Padraig et al,
> > 
> > in downstream openSUSE, we're considering to switch to building with
> > 
> >    ./configure --enable-single-binary=symlinks ...
> > 
> > per default.  Maybe SUSE's SLES would follow later.
> > 
> > Are there any specialties to consider, or any drawbacks known?
> 
> The main change that comes to mind could be startup time
> and memory use, due to more shared libs linked to the main binary.
> 
> For Fedora I created a coreutils-single package variant
> (from the same source rpm), that one could install
> in places where space was a consideration
> (like embedded or container images etc.).
> Since space is the main consideration, I also configured
> --without-openssl --without-gmp for that package variant.
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig

Worth to say that we do not use the `=symlinks` argument in Fedora,
so it defaults to `--enable-single-binary=shebangs`.

Kamil