From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:32:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static In-Reply-To: References: <50984D57.3080402@mind.be> Message-ID: <50999005.1020002@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 11/06/12 16:06, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: >> > Although I'm OK with this patch, I have been unable to reproduce the problem >> > and I'd like to know why it is going wrong with -static. Can you post a >> > defconfig that I can rebuild and that exposes the problem? >> > >> > Note: a few autobuilders with BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB enabled could be nice - >> > or maybe not, because many packages _will_break. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Arnout > First off, I built again with a clean copy of BuildRoot (2012.08) and > produced this output this time: > > root at akennedy_lin:~/deleteme/buildroot-2012.08# find output/target/ \ > -exec file {} \; 2>&1 | grep dynamic | awk -F: '{print $1}' > output/target/usr/bin/ldd > output/target/usr/bin/htop > output/target/usr/bin/getconf > output/target/usr/sbin/kdump > output/target/usr/sbin/proftpd > output/target/sbin/ldconfig I finally understand what's going on - it's exactly what Andy said in his first mail :-) libtool interpret -static as linking statically with libraries that will not be installed to the libdir; you have to pass it -all-static to force static linking. Or, as Andy proposes, pass --static, which libtool passes on blindly to gcc. gcc and (GNU) ld both interpret --static the same as -static (although this isn't documented). Therefore, this gets my Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F