Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:15:37 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de> Cc: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, tlambert2@mindspring.com, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Jason Vervlied <jvervlied@hway.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010812151537.C5339@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010812203855.E8111@cicely20.cicely.de>; from ticso@mail.cicely.de on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM %2B0200 References: <71828.997617255@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B76756F.9020809@yahoo.com> <20010812203855.E8111@cicely20.cicely.de>
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:38:56PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > Yes the sun packages installs into /bin: > ticso@cicely22> uname -a > SunOS cicely22 5.8 Generic_108528-01 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCclassic > ticso@cicely22> which bash > /bin/bash > ticso@cicely22> file /bin/bash > /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped > > It's not the first time that Unix Vendors do very silly things - just I assume you are referring to the dynamically linked attribute. Note that it is not Sun being "silly" -- the ELF binary ABI *REQUIRES* dynamic linking. A statically linked "ELF" binary is not ABI compliant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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