Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:55:33 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: tedm@toybox.placo.com Cc: freebsd.org!freebsd-questions@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <468c3375.7kSLbuENAWH%2BmQuo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEDGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEDGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> > 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.
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