From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 26 20: 7:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.knology.net (user-24-214-63-12.knology.net [24.214.63.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC3C37B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:07:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@havk.org) Received: (qmail 19140 invoked by uid 1003); 27 Feb 2001 04:10:20 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-88-8.knology.net (HELO bsd.havk.org) (24.214.88.8) by user-24-214-63-12.knology.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2001 04:10:20 -0000 Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48D061A789; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:07:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:07:48 -0600 From: Steve Price To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , 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> References: <200102260514.f1Q5EHJ96328@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:53:11PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message