From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1019 invoked from network); 27 Aug 1997 23:37:25 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Aug 1997 23:37:25 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA10660; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:28:38 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:28:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: snoopy.ftlsol.com: tim set sender to Tim.Writer using -f Sender: tim@ftlsol.com To: Bruce Stephens Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh as root login References: <199708271045.GAA27847@math.gatech.edu> From: Tim Writer Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:20:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: Bruce Stephens's message of Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:44:50 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Resent-Message-ID: <"Td8oM1.0.Ib2.2WB1q"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/990 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bruce Stephens writes: > Marc.Baudoin@solsoft.com said: > > That's not what I meant. Basically, I want to do : > > > ./configure; make; make install > > > and end with a dynamic zsh in /usr/local/bin and a static one in / > > bin. The man pages and info files can be installed only one time in / > > usr/local. > > Yeah, but how many other people want that? I think you're better off making > and installing it once normally, into /usr/local, and then configuring and > building a static version for /bin and installing that by hand. Agreed. But I'm curious as to why you (Marc Baudoin) even want zsh statically linked. I prefer to keep root dead simple, using /bin/sh without evan a .profile. In an emergency, I can (almost) always login as root. For day to day administration, I have a second root account (uid 0 but a different login name) which has zsh and a full set of startup files as its login shell. And by the way, I install zsh as /bin/zsh, dynamically linked. What's wrong with: ./configure ; make ; make install rm Src/zsh make LDFLAGS='-static' ; make install bindir='/bin' One set of object files, dynamic zsh in /usr/local/bin, static zsh in /bin, and no changes to the zsh distribution. Tim -- Tim Writer Tim.Writer@ftlsol.com FTL Solutions Inc. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA