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Re: shells & re: profile



On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Ofer Maor wrote:

> As far as I know - the default bash is dynamically linked and not
> statically.

I have to eat my hat (red or not). I rechecked it (on my debian 2.0), and
you are right indeed. I could swear, though, that last time I checked
(different distribution, and quite some time ago) it WAS statically
linked.

> 
> Again - in most linux boxes installed out of the box now a days, the default
> shell and the tcsh have the same accessibility. In commercial systems, I
> either make sure the tcsh and its libs will be all under the / partition, or
> compile a static one. But most people who ask a question like this in here,
> want a simpler answer - and I think I have given a rather fair one :-)
Fair indeed. I just couldn't resist the pun ;-)

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