Re: static parted

[Andrew Clausen]

Oren Tirosh wrote:
> 
> I wanted to run parted under a minimal environment without dynamic libraries
> and other support files (gconv, etc).  I believe this requirement is not
> unusual for a utility that is often used during installations.  Eventually I
> managed to do it by configuring without-this and disable-that and modifying
> the makefile to pass the -Bstatic parameter to ld.  It took a few tries,
> though.  It would be nice to have an option on the configure script to
> automatically create a completely static version.

I just added one yesterday!  (in 1.4.0-pre9)

        ./configure --enable-all-static

Andrew Clausen