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shevy-javatoday at 8:09 AM1 replyview on HN

Can you really mix it? When I break or remove a shared lib, some binaries no longer work. With static libs or even better, e. g. statically compiled busybox, I don't have that issue, so I disagree on the claim that mixing solves everything as such. I keep the basic toolchain I use as statically compiled variant. The whole system works better if I can break it less easily.


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dwattttttoday at 8:25 AM

I'm not sure that's particularly relevant; if I null out bits of the statically linked binary to remove some code paths, they break too.