Re: Static Link problems w/ bash-2.05 on Solaris-2.5.1

[Sven Mascheck]

Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. <wally.winzer@champusa.com> wrote:

> gcc [...]  -L./lib/sh -static [...]
                        ^^^^^^^
> On previous versions I was able to do this w/ no problems.

This is true, in 2.04 "-static" appeared only with LD_STATIC in the
Makefile, but now it's also (hardcoded) with LDFLAGS.  So the
appropriate make call, unsetting it, doesn't suffice anymore.

This also happens on later Solaris versions.

Yes, "-static" is always the wrong option on Solaris.

So it apparently might be necessary to adjust three things in the Makefile:

 - always remove the "-static"
 - add "-L/etc/lib"
 - take care, that "[-Wl,]-Bstatic" comes before any "-l<library>" option.

   Wether the last two are actually necessary, seems to depend on
   Solaris/compiler/linker combination.  But they never harm, when
   compiling a static executable.

Sven