Re: Compiling bash statically in 4.2/4.3/4.4 with GCC 6.1.0

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/12/17 9:55 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> FWIW, I'm able to compile bash statically with:
> 
> dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ ./configure --enable-static-link
> --without-bash-malloc
> [...]
> dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ make
> [...]

During which you get a million warnings about using any of the username/
group/service/hostname lookup functions in a static executable without
the dynamic libraries available.


> It fails if I try to use clang though:
        [...]
> It seems to be caused by the combination of `-static' and `rdynamic'
> (from LOCAL_LDFLAGS). This "works" though:

The -rdynamic is in there to support `enable -f', though I don't know
whether it's reasonable to expect that to work when you link with the
static libraries.

Chet

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