FS#43227 - [busybox] the binary should be statically linked

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Xyne (Xyne) - Friday, 26 December 2014, 00:41 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Thursday, 26 February 2015, 18:04 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Low
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The busybox executable is not statically linked:

$ ldd /usr/bin/busybox
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff317fe000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcb51f69000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb51bc6000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcb5226e000)

This severely limits the utility of the executable for recovery on a live system. Compare to the binaries provided directly from upstream (http://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/):

$ ldd busybox-x86_64
not a dynamic executable

Can the package be updated to provide a statically linked version?

Sorry if this has already been answered.
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Thursday, 26 February 2015, 18:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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