Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:08:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Luke H." <hendrix@cockatoo.aus.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: asbestos suited static vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415070615.8774A-100000@cockatoo.aus.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414224125.21670B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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> > Maybe just have a port/package that installs a static vi to /bin? > That was my plan. > A binary packagee, with all the termcap db's etc that we need, and > possibly a source patch so you could jsut make world par regular and > you'll have a static vi in /bin. > Possibly branching out into FreeBSD/static, with static tcsh, static bash, > static party hats, static cling, etc. > An insane flight of fantasy I know, but it's a direction that a lot of > people will have a use for one piece or another of. hey arent static binaries faster, just bigger? there should be an option for make.conf to build the whole of usr/src static :). that aside I think it would be fairly easy to make a vi package that installs to /bin, maybe make a note in a readme in the sysinstall help about it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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