Re: 2.1.9 patches

[Mark . Burgess]

There have been many problems with static compilation. If we could add a
flag --with-static it would be nice, but I don't think it should be
the default.

It is also compiler dependent of course, so there might be many cases
to cover for people not using the GNU tools.

M

On 13 Aug, Christian Pearce wrote:
> I run static on some of the Solaris boxes I support.  I do something
> similar for static support.  What do we need to do to get this into
> configure?  If I get a chance I will look at this next week.
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 19:49, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> * Sven Mueller <sm@leogic.com> [040812 00:43]:
>> > What I would _really_ like to see is support in ./configure to 
>> > explicitly turn on static linking against bdb and openssl 
>> > (individually). I need this on some machines and for now, I always patch 
>> > the Makefiles after running configure. That's obviously not the right 
>> > thing to do, but I don't see any alternative as I don't know (and don't 
>> > have the time to learn about) autoconf. Maybe someone else would be able 
>> > to do that?
>> 
>> On which OS let you run the static linked version?
>> 
>>      Thomas
>> 
>> 
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