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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:21:04 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>,
	Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ksh93
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > I notice that this installs the Korn shell as a static binary.
... 
> +.if defined(WANT_STATIC)
> +MAKE_ARGS+=	LDFLAGS=-static
> +.endif

I am very against this.  It is not a bug for ksh93 to be built
statically, but the bug is in those shells that are built dynamically in
/usr/ports/shells/.  Fix the right bug.

-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

P.S.  What in the world is everyone's aversion to static binaries??

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