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I don't recall our bash ever being staticly linked. It is possible to 
build bash without the readline problem, it's been optional for a while 
now. That said, a static bash as a fallback would be a good thing to 
have.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:07:25PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated readline and bash in the devel grimoire and while doing
> this totally broke my readline install which left me with no working
> shell on my system. Luckily i managed to recover from that using a
> static busybox i got from a rpm on the web, but it made me wonder why we
> don't install a static bash binary in addition to the dynamic one
> anymore. I know we used to do that, and I think it's a nice fallback for
> such problems. Does anyone remember why we removed that from the bash
> spell?
> 
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> Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux 
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