On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 08:33:42PM +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > With commit e3d09ec8126f ("tools lib traceevent: Export dynamic symbols > used by traceevent plugins") we started to add "--dynamic-list" in > LDFLAGS. One side-effect of that was inability to build really > statically-linked perf. IIRC --dynamic-list forces perf to exports some symbols to be used by plugins.. don't see this breaking static build also it's working properly for me: [jolsa at krava perf]$ make LDFLAGS=-static ... [jolsa at krava perf]$ ldd ./perf not a dynamic executable unless I miss what you mean by 'really statically-linked' ;-) Maybe different features enabled/build environment could you please send the .config-detected along with the build error? thanks, jirka