Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:58:00 -0800 From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> To: "Petersen" <petersen@fully.qualified.domain.name> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: A vi for /bin? Message-ID: <p05210202ba58f08ccec6@[165.227.249.18]> In-Reply-To: <KOEDJPGCNAIOODFOCJJIEEAIGDAA.petersen@fully.qualified.domain.name> References: <KOEDJPGCNAIOODFOCJJIEEAIGDAA.petersen@fully.qualified.domain.name>
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At 1:36 AM +0000 1/26/03, Petersen wrote: >Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> I'm kinda surprised this isn't in the FAQ (or at least not in a place >> that I could find it). It is really impossible to build a vi with no >> external dependencies that can be installed in /bin? > >What made you think it was impossible? The book "FreeBSD" by Anderson (which was highly recommended by some) says so on page 371. I'm glad to hear that's wrong. >Assuming you have the object files from a buildworld hanging around, then >cd /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/vi >cc -O -pipe -o vi *.o -lncurses -static && strip vi && mv vi /bin/ >should probably supply you with what you want. Thanks, I'll try that. (I haven't done a buildworld yet...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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