On 4 August 2015 at 22:58, Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-08-04 22:42 GMT+02:00 Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>:
>> I'm working on a new stali distro (current state will be published
>> during the next days) and am looking for a ELF capable linker that
>> doesn't suffers from GPL/copyleft licensing issues.
>>
>> Background: I need to solve the problem of not offering pre-linked
>> binaries that combine GPLed portions with other licensed portions...
>> but to come up with a neat solution, I'd like to rely on a free ELF
>> linker.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/wiki/Home/
I've tried it. It works, but it isn't at advanced at just picking the
required .o's than gold. All binaries I create with the elftoolchain's
experimental ld are about 25% larger, example:
ld -s -static posix.o utmp.o
toolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/crt1.o
-Ltoolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/ -lc -o utmp2
strip -a utmp2
vs.
x86_64-linux-musl-ld -s -static posix.o utmp.o
toolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/crt1.o
-Ltoolchain/x86_64-linux-musl/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/ -lc -o utmp3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 anselm anselm 42816 Aug 6 07:45 utmp2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 anselm anselm 33648 Aug 6 07:44 utmp3
I need to investigate further. But probably I will rather go with a
static gold linked against glibc to produce smaller binaries and to be
GPL compliant....
BR,
Anselm
Received on Thu Aug 06 2015 - 07:50:30 CEST