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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
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Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin?
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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.

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