Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: glibc 2.2. version?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:15:03PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Yes, yes, we'd love to distribute static versions.  The problem is
> that _there is no longer such a thing as a static build with recent
> glibc versions_, because the glibc maintainers do not think supporting
> this case is important.  If anyone out there makes a static build,
> then yay.  I just tried, and couldn't even get a binary out (even
> ignoring the warning messages about how even though this build is
> static it will still require the same versions of libc be installed at
> run time as if it were dynamic).  Sorry.  We fought this and lost.

Okay, I realized I was doing something dumb, and actually succeeded in
making a static version.  It still warns prominently that it will
not work without having the right glibc shared libraries available,
i.e., it claims to not really be a static build at all, but, hey, in
case anyone wants to try their luck:
  http://venge.net/monotone/monotone-0.17-linux-quasistatic.bz2

-- Nathaniel

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