On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: > If anyone has been lamenting the loss of the bash-static package, this > evening i took the time to figure out how to create something that > works just as well. I peeked in the Makefile for bash on an older > version of OpenBSD to see how the static version differs. The > difference is when compiling bash the CONFIGURE_ENV variable needs to > be set. The full steps i used to build a bash-static package were: > > First install the ports tarball from the install CD. You will also need > to have the compilers install set installed (it is by default). Then: > # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash > # make print-build-depends > This will print a list of dependencies. Install them from packages. You > could also compile them from ports, but why when other people have > already done the excellent work of providing the packages? > # export CONFIGURE_ENV="LDFLAGS=-static" > # make package > That's it! The new bash package will be in /usr/ports/packages/i386/all > (of course, "i386" will be different for other platforms). It won't > have "-static" in the name, but you can always rename the file before > installing on other systems if you really want. > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University > Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave > +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA > >
... makes no sense to me. bash is installed in /usr, the same place where all shared libraries are. If /usr does not come up for some reason, you can't log in with ssh any more. bash needs gettext, c and termcap. The later two are in the base system and gettext is needed in nearly any program as dependency. So, it doesn't even save space (like you could pkg_delete gettext after compiling bash-static) shells are static for system maintenance, that is, small file system with /bin, /sbin etc., but not /usr, /var, /tmp, ... If you really want bash-static to make sense, modify PLIST and install it to /bin. Tobias
