Re: RFC: [PATCH] build: Option for building all tools in a single binary

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/09/2014 05:18 PM, Alex Deymo wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This seems like a very useful option, thanks!
>> Yes given that there are around 100 utils,
>> amalgamation like this reduces overhead significantly.
>>
>> For a change this size we'd need copyright assignment though.
>> Does your employer already have copyright assignment to the FSF?
>> If not could you initiate the process?
> 
> I checked this point with the legal team and they said the company
> (Google Inc.) has a copyright assignment on file. If accepted, this
> patch will be owned by the FSF.

Cool. Google is on file.

>> Something like this, orthogonal to the existing coreutils logic,
>> would be considered for the impending coreutils 8.23 release
>> (hopefully cut next week), though depending on timing this
>> might slip to the next release.
> 
> Let me know if you have comments about this patch. I'll try to fix any
> issue before the 8.23 cut.

Note the next cut will be relatively soon after,
so no worries if we don't complete immediately.

One thing I was wondering about in addition to the
other items in this thread was setting the external command name,
with setproctitle() or prctl(PR_SET_NAME) on Linux,
or maybe we could reexec to set this?

thanks,
Pádraig.