Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 01:08:30 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Forcing static-linking on a port? Message-ID: <002001c56037$c90171b0$0a2a15ac@SMILEY> In-Reply-To: <20050524044808.GD16069@dan.emsphone.com>
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From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com]=20 >=20 > In the last episode (May 23), Darren Pilgrim said: > > I need to make use of a port during start up, but it has library > > dependencies that aren't available, before the complete library path = is > > established. I've tried the following: > >=20 > > NO_SHARED=3Dtrue (added to /etc/make.conf) > > make -DNO_SHARED > > make LDFLAGS+=3D-static > >=20 > > Every time, running file on the compiled program tells me that the binary is > > dynamically-linked. I couldn't find anything else in any man pages, = Mk > > files, mailing lists, Google, etc. Sorry for the semi-inappropriate list > > choice, but this one would get swallowed up on -questions. >=20 > NO_SHARED only works on programs that use the bsd.prog.mk makefile > template; I'd guess under a dozen ports do this. >=20 > Some pieces of software have dynamic-link options hardcoded in their > Makefiles, probably as a workaround for bugs in other OSes. Those > options override -static. I can't think of a valid reason for them to > be used in FreeBSD. Search for (and remove) any occurances of > -Wl,-Bdynamic and -Wl,-Bstatic , and you should be set. No luck on either string. I ended up getting what I wanted by going = through the source Makefile and adding "-static" to the appropriate line in the target for the program I needed static-linked. Now devd can bring up my wireless NIC at boot. Works great!
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