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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by enriquto on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:03AM (#42428668)
> Many build systems don't respect LDFLAGS and CFLAGS, or respect one or the other, or only partially respect them, causing a great deal of annoyance

Sounds good, doesn't it? This means that efforts to produce a fully static distribution would imply a sweeping wave of fixes across a wide range of packages and build systems!

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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by chasil on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:26AM (#42430092)
But your ideal UNIX has already come and gone.

"[Ultrix] never supported shared libraries or dynamically linked executables."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix

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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by anthk on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:07PM (#42434173)
9front/plan9. Unix 2.0.
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Re:Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system by machinestops on Monday December 16, 2024 @12:44PM (#42433314)
The path of least resistance is to jam flags where they don't belong, sed patches, etc. Works well enough, so that's what ends up happening.
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