[Monotone-devel] static stuff (was Re: Problems compiling on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.3.2)

[graydon hoare]

Patrick Mauritz wrote:

> same for monotone later, just configure with --enable-shared (doesn't work 
> otherwise
> as pthreads and some other stuff doesn't exist as static libraries on solaris)

fwiw, I've posted changes to my depot recently to permit configure 
--enable-static-boost which scrounges around for libboost*.a and adds 
them to the list of objects in the link, but otherwise links dynamically 
against system libs. this appears to be the best I can do given the 
OS-level hostility to static linking currently in vogue: it creates a 
monotone which only depends dynamically on common things like libc, 
libpthreads, and popt.

future "static" builds (the .bz2 builds for example) will probably be 
posted this way. the RPMs and debs will probably wind up fully dynamic, 
since the OS vendors all provide boost now.

-graydon