From: spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) Subject: Re: Installation shell: Bash Date: 22 Jun 1992 16:01:46 GMT
joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
[...]
> Is it possible to compile only the core features of bash, and so make
> the executable smaller? We could have two versions of bash, one
> full-blown, the other only really useful for running shells and installing
> the full-blown one. I haven't looked at the code. Is this possible?
Yes, bash can be compiled without the readline library => no fancy command-
line editing, but it'll be smaller.
> -Joel
> (joel@wam.umd.edu)
./salvador