Angelo leto wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to build statically all the gcc executables in order to generate a portable compiler package, in particular I need a package which is not dependent from a specific dynamic loader version (ld-linux.so.2), could you please help me to find a way to obtain this? For instance I can run gcc using the command "ld-linux.so.2 ~/mygcc/usr/bin/c++", but c++ then calls cc1plus which also needs ld-linux.so.2 ....
The short answer is to set the makefile args to that gcc links with -static. Simply "make LDFLAGS=-static" might work for you. The long answer: Usually, people who want to do this don't know what they're doing, and people who do know how to do it wouldn't consider doing it because they know all the problems it will cause. When you build gcc you're building it for a specific host/target combination, and configure autodetects properties of both. It doesn't usually make much sense to use a gcc that's been built for one host on a different host. Sometimes, however, people build gcc on an old operating system version and it will run on a newer version. That makes sense for cross-compilers, in particular. So, can I ask you what you are really trying to do? Is it that you really need to run on some ancient Linux that really doesn't have ld-linux.so.2? Andrew.
