From 8cb0af95e8936d297ec54336e03683e9daf563b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:21:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] rescue: say gbye to 'boot floppies' and moderize --- rescue/README | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/rescue/README b/rescue/README index 3a8cb463fe5e..496575e1a323 100644 --- a/rescue/README +++ b/rescue/README @@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ normally found in /bin and /sbin. These Makefiles recompile each of the crunchgen components and include support for overriding specific library entries. Such techniques -should be useful elsewhere. For example, boot floppies could use this -to conditionally compile out features to reduce executable size. +should be useful elsewhere. 3) Produce a toolkit suitable for small distributions. @@ -27,8 +26,8 @@ system. These tools have one big disadvantage: being statically linked, they cannot use some advanced library functions that rely on dynamic -linking. In particular, nsswitch, locales, and pam are likely to all -rely on dynamic linking in the near future. +linking. In particular, nsswitch, locales, and pam all +rely on dynamic linking. To compile: