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[Jackson Alley <jalley AT toomanymirrors.homelinux.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:07:18 +0200
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:36:30PM -0400, 
> dufflebunk AT pizzaz.wite3.on.cogeco.ca wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The one in devel now installs /bin/bash.static in addition to the normal
> one.
> 
> > 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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Do we have a list of what spells will install staticly? I've had several 
users ask me what can be installed staticly and if there is a way to have a 
spell always compile staticly w/o having to use the sorcery option?

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Jackson Alley (TooManyMirrors) <jalley AT toomanymirrors.homelinux.com>
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