On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:54:26AM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > I'm wanting to use BASH as my root shell, so I compiled a statically linked > version then tried to log in with only / mounted. But I was locked out > because elf.ld.so could not be found.. > > I though elf was the native binary format these days? But it needs a > library to run them? Is it possible to statically link against elf? Or do > standalone binary have to be in aout format? I'm a bit confused as to why it > requires this dynamic library..
I'm not sure if this helps at all, but you can build a static version of bash from the Ports tree: cd /usr/ports/shells/bash make WITH_STATIC_BASH=1 You'll need to cp bash to /bin. Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"