Necessary code or trash?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 28), Marc Wiz said:
> Sticking with /bin/sh is a good idea.  
> 
> What I have done is build a static version of bash and put it /bin
> 
> I changed root's shell to /bin/bash and run just fine.
> 
> Has anyone noticed what a pain it is to build bash statically and
> install it in /bin?

I don't use bash, but the bash2 port Makefile looks like it builds a
static binary by default:

CONFIGURE_ENV=  LDFLAGS=-static

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