Re: Cannot build statically linked, working bash

[Chet Ramey]

thomas@koeller.dyndns.org wrote:

> Description:
>       I failed at building a statically linked, working bash. First of all, 
> the only way to build is
>         by giving the '--with-bash-malloc=no' argument to configure, because 
> otherwise the linker will
>         complain about multiple definitions of 'malloc' and 'free', which of 
> course are present in libc.
>         Even so, the binary resulting from the build will crash during 
> startup, inside the getpwuid()
>         function. I found a mail thread that describes a similar problem for 
> bash-3.2 on Solaris
>         http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2008-10/msg00011.html. 
> Like the reporter, I configured
>         my system to use LDAP for authentication. Only if I run bash as the 
> root user, which is a local
>         account outside the ldap directory, there is no crash and it appears 
> to work.

It's the same problem.  There are portions of the Linux C library that
cannot be used by a statically-linked program.  The best you can do is
to link those portions dynamically and the remainder statically.

Chet
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