From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 00:15:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402F516A400 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C2013C459 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id l6502Q4L056188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id l6502QgY056187; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 ([192.168.200.61]) by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA28627; Wed, 4 Jul 07 16:52:49 PDT Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:55:33 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: tedm@toybox.placo.com Message-Id: <468c3375.7kSLbuENAWH+mQuo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:38:49 +0000 Cc: freebsd.org!freebsd-questions@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:15:10 -0000 > > If one is going to require the installation of something that may > > not be part of a base system, that something might as well be bash :) > > Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you > have to GNUify your system. And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew. > The second you put in gmake, gmake requires > iconv, readline and all the other nasty libraries, and from that point > on if you build something you never know if it's going to link in to > one of those libraries. > ... > This can cause major problems for commercial users. How? Last I heard, the *L*GPL only requires making the *library* source available (and that only if the library has been modified). It doesn't extend to the using application. > I'd love for someone to modify the gmake port to have a variable > you can set that would build all the GNUified dependency libraries, > build and install gmake and statically link in all it's GNUified > libraries, then remove all the GNUified libraries. Or, change all the gnu ports to install into something like /usr/local/gnu or /usr/local/gpl instead of straight into /usr/local. You'd still have the gnu libs when needed, but without having them included in "normal" search paths.