Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:32:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ksh93 Message-ID: <20010228093214.D92203@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010228112329.A9192@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:29AM -0600 References: <200102260514.f1Q5EHJ96328@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com> <20010227154226.A36915@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20010227162104.A7892@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010228065758.A29047@hamlet.nectar.com> <3A9CF86E.18C36ED0@FreeBSD.org> <20010228091630.B92203@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010228112329.A9192@hamlet.nectar.com>
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:29AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> Well, ld.so could still break, and anyway you'd lose the ability to
> use a replacement libc. I don't think this middle ground would be all
> that useful.
Other than for SOCKS, since ksh93 has network functions, why would you
need to use a replacement libc? 97% of our users will never want to use
a replacement libc. However, disk corruption and other system problems
_DO_ occur.
> For users with a clue, they can choose static or dynamic
> and understand the repercussions. For other users, I think it should
> default to dynamic so that they don't ask "Hey, why can't I use the
> ksh-tk port?"
I will claim that the number of users wanting to use dynamic modules with
ksh is much small than those that won't. So why not put make the power
uses have to use a special knob, vs. the majority?
> or "Why doesn't ~user work where said user is in LDAP?"
Uh, then if the user's shell is /bin/tcsh which is static, why won't this
be a problem???
> > Which shell uses dl*()?? Why is this needed, and why complicate things.
>
> ksh93. See the man page under `builtin'.
Then please don't object to "plain" shells in ports being dynamically
linked.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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