From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 25 4:47:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BEA3150AF for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 04:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 20585 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 1999 11:47:37 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 20571 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 1999 11:47:36 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop2.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 25 Jul 1999 11:47:36 -0000 Message-ID: <379AF958.41E15B97@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 04:47:36 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! References: <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> <379914D5.6DB65A6C@uswest.net> <3799EA01.4A1E60C@newsguy.com> <379AD017.F651CC0E@uswest.net> <379AD150.E2110AEA@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Summoner wrote: >> >> Static linked means that the compiled binary has the neccessary >> (runtime?) libraries compiled into it, instead of using shared >> libraries on the system? > > Correct. Mama always done told me I was one of the sharper knives in the drawer. :-) If I make a static linked version of bash, would it no longer be a Bad Thing(tm) to use it for root's shell, or should I just learn to use csh like a good little unixhead? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message