Re: [Qemu-devel] cannot build qemu with "--static" configure option

[Mr Dash Four]

> > > Perhaps you lack a static version of the library.
> > What do you mean by that? The *.la files? I wasn't aware that there are
> > any...
>
> I mean lib*.a files.  They are needed if you specify static, by 
> definition.
Hmm, this opens a huge Pandora's box for me - in my own distribution 
(Fedora) the "nss" package (which I have installed) provides 
/usr/lib64/libssl3.so, but not libssl3.a. "nss-devel" (which I also have 
installed) provides all the relevant /include files (headers and the 
like), but there is no libssl3.a there either! There is no package 
called "nss-devel-static" distributed by Fedora and the only ".a" files 
produced by compiling the nss source are libcrmf.a libnssb.a and 
libnssckfw.a - no libssl3.a at all. So, where do I get this?

Also, assuming libssl3 is not the only one, ld will probably complain 
that there are other ".a" files missing from various other packages 
which are probably not present in my host machine. If that is the case, 
this is an absolute nightmare to have to deal with! Where do I get these 
files? Thanks for your input Paolo.