Re: [OctDev] munge-texi problem with static library build

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Mar-2011, Rik wrote:

| Unfortunately, I don't believe you will be able to easily build a
| statically linked version of Octave.  I just tried with the development
| code and it bombs out pretty badly.  The generated Makefile in the src
| directory, for example, can't even be read by Make because a line
| continuation character is missing.  Furthermore, if you look at Makefile.am
| in the src directory you will find this comment:
|   ## FIXME -- this list is probably not complete now.  It may not even
|   ## be possible to build a statically linked copy of Octave that is
|   ## fully functional.

I'd be willing to try to fix the Makefiles, but there may still be
some problems.  The last time I tried to build a fully static version
on my Debian system, it failed to link because there some
dependencies were only available as shared libraries.  Also, there
will likely be some problems with trying to load .oct files, which are
normally built as shared libraries.

jwe