> there is a whole discussion on why static linking is good on http://sta.li There is also a whole distribution that statically compiles everything and gives various arguments for doing so. Pacman depends on shell scripts too. I guess the location of those would also need to be considered. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________