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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT efn.org>]

>James Miller wrote:
>>
>> how does one "make a completely static binary"?
>> Some extra options/arguments must be required
>> during the process, right?  Like . . . ?
> I hope somebody else is going to answer this, because I'm
> just a hacker when it comes to compiling.  I know that when

I'm certainly not a compiling guru, but I have had good luck
examining the makefile in the highest directory and adding
-static to the "LDFLAGS" entry (these are the commands to the
linker)  I have also done fairly well adding -static to the
"CFLAGS" entry in the makefile.  Of course, if the configure
script gives an option to compile a static version, use it!
If you do need to modify the makefile, run the configure
script first; it will overwrite the makefile(s).
Ken Martwick