From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 21:17:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F1C14FAE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-71-206.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.71.206]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05196; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA01800; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:18:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199904290418.AAA01800@bellsouth.net> To: jmutter@netwalk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@bellsouth.net, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:11:35 EDT." Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:18:40 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You know people, it's not that difficult to make a statically linked > binary. Edit the makefile to include "-static" as a linker option and > you're all set. Never said it was. My point was that it's "evil" to copy things from the "local" subtree into /bin It seems better to create a directory like /root/bin for such things. In the case of the bash2 port one can do this: cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 && make CONFIGURE_ARGS=--enable-static-link install Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message