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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:07:48 -0600
From:      Steve Price <steve@havk.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, naddy@mips.inka.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ksh93 (was Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/ksh93 [...])
Message-ID:  <20010226220748.S426@bsd.havk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:53:11PM -0600
References:  <200102260514.f1Q5EHJ96328@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com>

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:53:11PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> I notice that this installs the Korn shell as a static binary.  While
> this might be useful for some environments, it has the disadvantage that
> it nullifies the Korn shell's very useful dynamic loading of `builtin'
> functions (see the man page's description of `builtin').
> 
> I think this should default to building a dynamic executable.  A knob
> for building a static version would be nice.  Heck, I wouldn't mind if
> it built & installed one of each!  But that would probably be somewhat
> hairy to add to the build procedure.

I'm cool with that.  If someone wants to work up a patch, then I'd
be glad to get it committed.

-Steve

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