Zsh Mailing List Archive
Messages sorted by:
Reverse Date,
Date,
Thread,
Author
Re: zsh as root login
- X-seq: zsh-users 990
- From: Tim Writer <Tim.Writer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: zsh as root login
- Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:20:27 -0400
- Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Bruce Stephens's message of Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:44:50 +0100
- References: <199708271045.GAA27847@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: tim@xxxxxxxxxx
Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Marc.Baudoin@xxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxx
FTL Solutions Inc.
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Messages sorted by:
Reverse Date,
Date,
Thread,
Author