Re: [xml] Static compiling

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

In the case I'm concerned about, dynamic linking shouldn't be used
since it's for an embedded system with a little memory available.
Since the app isn't too big, it's propably the best thing to do.

So from what you say, I can understand that the error comes from the
way the "configure" script works.

Basically, what I do is:
LDFLAGS=-static ./configure

and then, it stops at:
checking for XML configuration
checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
checking for xmlParseFile... no
configure: error: Unable to link with libxml

2006/9/30, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 04:50:53AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:39:12PM -0400, Pierre-Luc Bacon wrote:
> > > 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:
> > >
> > [...]
> > > 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
> >
> >   No idea, I always compile statically in my devel tree and never saw this
> > when linking xmllint statically for example. Check with your OS/distro
> > they must know about it.
>
>   If the application tries to link statically all the stack including
> the libc, then it can be a problem, and I guess it's what is being raised in
> the warning. The fact that libxml2 uses the resolver trigger this, but
> fundamentally compiling the whole application static is asking for troubles
> especially for a large app.
>
> Daniel
>
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