Comment by sylware

I ended linux from scratch support a long time ago. Well I did the right thing. Everything is systemd free on my side, for my own sake. This systemd is so much a "microsoft grade bad idea".

There is still interesting code patches here and there, and interesting info on brain damaged SDKs (gcc, glibc, etc).

Most of the time I remove the SDK itself, basically I write a linear and brutal shell script with fine grained control on the compiler/linker. I do push down to nearly remove completely the compiler driver (a spectacular failure) namely CPP->C->ASM->O.

I would like to move away from ELF too for a modern file format for dynamic libs and executable, but the "geniuses" using complex computer languages (mostly c++) for critical open source components make that a massive pain (runtime, ELF relocation requiring obsolete infrastructure, etc).