[Buildroot] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static

[Buildroot] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static

[ANDY KENNEDY]

All,

Near line 302 in package/Makefile.in was added TARGET_LDFLAGS += -static
to satisfy a request I made a while back.  This really needs to be
--static so that it filters down through autoconf the correct way.  If
-static is passed in LDFLAGS, autoconf regularly mishandles this by
setting a variable then never reconfiguring the package's make system
to build static.  However, the --static to ld is the same as -static,
but autoconf does not compare for --static, thus, packages get built as
desired.

Can someone change this in package/Makefile.in or should I submit a
dinky patch for this?

Thanks,
Andy

[Buildroot] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 11/02/12 18:06, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> All,
>
> Near line 302 in package/Makefile.in was added TARGET_LDFLAGS += -static
> to satisfy a request I made a while back.  This really needs to be
> --static so that it filters down through autoconf the correct way.  If
> -static is passed in LDFLAGS, autoconf regularly mishandles this by
> setting a variable then never reconfiguring the package's make system
> to build static.  However, the --static to ld is the same as -static,
> but autoconf does not compare for --static, thus, packages get built as
> desired.

  I don't really understand how it can go wrong...  Can you give an example
of a package with a configure script that handles it the wrong way?

>
> Can someone change this in package/Makefile.in or should I submit a
> dinky patch for this?

  Yes, please submit a patch.

  Regards,
  Arnout

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[Buildroot] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static

[ANDY KENNEDY]

> On 11/02/12 18:06, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Near line 302 in package/Makefile.in was added TARGET_LDFLAGS += -static
> > to satisfy a request I made a while back.  This really needs to be
> > --static so that it filters down through autoconf the correct way.  If
> > -static is passed in LDFLAGS, autoconf regularly mishandles this by
> > setting a variable then never reconfiguring the package's make system
> > to build static.  However, the --static to ld is the same as -static,
> > but autoconf does not compare for --static, thus, packages get built as
> > desired.
> 
>   I don't really understand how it can go wrong...  Can you give an example
> of a package with a configure script that handles it the wrong way?

kexec, htop, proftpd, dropbear, etc.

kexec is special in that it also has kdump which I never figured out how
to get that make system to build it static (I drop it off, however, as I
don't need it).

> 
> >
> > Can someone change this in package/Makefile.in or should I submit a
> > dinky patch for this?
> 
>   Yes, please submit a patch.
> 
>   Regards,
>   Arnout
> 
> --
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> Senior Embedded Software Architect                 +32-16-286540
> Essensium/Mind                                     http://www.mind.be
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