--enable-static has no effect

[slyfox]

Static builds seems to be broken:

$ _mc-bin/bin/mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.7.1-118-g9b41d62

$ LDFLAGS=-all-static ./configure --prefix=$(pwd)/_mc-bin \
                --with-samba \
                --with-mcfs \
                --enable-charset \
                --enable-extcharset \
                --enable-maintainer-mode \
                --with-glib-static \
                --enable-mcserver

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: in `/home/slyfox/dev/git/mc-build.all-static':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

LDFLAGS=-static does not have any effect, Libtool seems to skip it on executable binaries.

It can easily be my misunderstanding on how to use it.

[and]

Hi slyfox,
with --enable-static you build a static mc library (lib/.libs/libmc.a).
That is not what you want. You want a static binary.
please try:

# make clean && make LDFLAGS=-all-static

compile result should be:

# ldd src/mc
        not a dynamic executable

[slyfox]

Replying to and:

Hi slyfox,
with --enable-static you build a static mc library (lib/.libs/libmc.a).
That is not what you want. You want a static binary.
please try:

# make clean && make LDFLAGS=-all-static

compile result should be:

# ldd src/mc
        not a dynamic executable

I tried this one, but I (quite narurally) use ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode, which is smart enough to rerun configure when I pass LDFLAGS to make. It results in reconfigure breakage.

AFAIU LDFLAGS=-all-static ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode ${other_opts} should work, I'll change bug description.

[metux]

See branch:​2129_static_build

BUT: unfortunately that doesn't work as g_module_open() crashes while trying to load libX11.

That's one of the classic cases, why I always strongly advise people
*NOT* to use runtime library loading, unless you know *EXACTLY*
what you're doing. Those things won't work with static executables.
(well, in theory it _could_ work, but requires a lot of linker magic ;-o)

[andrew_b]

Where is the branch?

[angel_il]

changeset: ​http://www.midnight-commander.org/changeset/2129_static_build

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3127 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.