From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26185 invoked from network); 27 Aug 1997 13:09:39 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Aug 1997 13:09:39 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29798; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:01:27 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:00:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199708271258.NAA01228@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: zsh as root login To: jc@aeppel.gmd.de (Juergen Christoffel) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:58:45 +0100 (BST) Cc: Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com, zefram@tao.co.uk, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199708271251.OAA27026@aeppel.gmd.de> from "Juergen Christoffel" at Aug 27, 97 02:51:38 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Headers: in preparation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"IJd_D3.0.6G7.8K21q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/989 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Juergen Christoffel wrote: > Why not decide on the behavior based on an option to configure: > > ./configure --enable-build-static This would be good. autoconf can be used to determine which options are required for a static build. >That would be nice. But make that ./configure --sbin and install a >copy under /sbin instead of /bin for those machines who supply an >/sbin directory. But it would be bad for such an option to also cause two copies to be compiled, or change the installation directories. You can easily add --bindir=/bin or --bindir=/sbin yourself. -zefram