Re: static linking, versions 4.0, 4.1

[Jim Meyering]

andrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> I would like a statically-linked binary of ls, for anonymous ftp on an
> Intel/Linux system.
>
> To achieve this, I have tried to compile from fileutils-4.0 (the version
> used on my SuSE 6.3 installation), and from version 4.1
>
> The compiler is egcs-2.91.66
>
> The sources compile correctly using
>
>       ./configure
>       make
>
> Although this happens much faster than the INSTALL file suggests, the ls
> binary produced certainly works.
>
> However, when I use the following, which I'm told should produce a
> statically-linked binary of ls, it ends with an error:

Please try the latest:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.4.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)