Re: 2.1.9 patches

[Chip Seraphine]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:41, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Albert Chin [u] wrote on 12/08/2004 00:34:
>
> What I would _really_ like to see is support in ./configure to 
> explicitly turn on static linking against bdb and openssl 
> (individually).

Hear, hear!  Recovery tools should have as few third-party  runtime 
dependencies as possible.

> I need this on some machines and for now, I always patch 
> the Makefiles after running configure. That's obviously not the right 
> thing to do, but I don't see any alternative as I don't know (and don't 
> have the time to learn about) autoconf. Maybe someone else would be able 
> to do that?

I attacked that by creating a sandbox just for cfengine compiles where I 
*only* put the .a files.  The only problem is that the configure script 
hardcodes the "-R" flags on Solaris, meaning that the path to the static libs 
is stat'd every time a cfengine executable runs anyway-- which means that I 
end up having to edit the Makefile (or configure script) anyway.  Ah, well.

(I submitted my patch for configure.ac a while back, but it didn't appear in 
subsequent releases. )
 
> cu,
> sven

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