[xml] Static compiling

["Pierre-Luc Bacon" <pierrelucbacon gmail com>]

I can't get a program (ices2) that uses libxml2 to compile statically
with this library. It fails in "./configure" process exposing this in
config.log:

configure:20640: gcc -o conftest -g -O2
-I/home/pierre-luc/staticxml2//include/libxml2  -static conftest.c -L/
home/pierre-luc/staticxml2//lib -lxml2 -lz -lm  >&5
/home/pierre-luc/staticxml2//lib/libxml2.a(nanohttp.o)(.text+0xc1b):
In function `xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost':
/home/pierre-luc/Desktop/libxml2-2.6.26/nanohttp.c:1004: warning:
Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked app
lications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc
version used for linking
/home/pierre-luc/staticxml2//lib/libxml2.a(nanohttp.o)(.text+0xce5):/home/pierre-luc/Desktop/libxml2-2.6.26/na
nohttp.c:1050: warning: Using 'gethostbyname' in statically linked
applications requires at runtime the shared
libraries from the glibc version used for linking

I tried building libxml2 with --disable-shared and it was doing the
same as with the normal system library. I did the same on 3 different
computers without much more success (two of them running Slackware and
the other under Ubuntu).

Would this be related the way ices2 implements libtool ?
Should I recompile libxml2 in another way ?

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Pierre-Luc Bacon
www.aqra.ca