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.
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