Hello Neil , Thanks to Mike Black I got my sh?? straight . Below is a patch to that will allow people to add : -static to: LDFLAGS add : -s to: STRIP at the top of the Makefile . Massage to your tastes ;-) . Hth , JimL --- Makefile.ORIG Wed Mar 13 00:51:07 2002 +++ Makefile Sun Mar 17 12:45:18 2002 @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ CC = gcc CFLAGS = -Wall,error,strict-prototypes -ggdb +LDFLAGS = -static +STRIP = -s + INSTALL = /usr/bin/install DESTDIR = /. BINDIR = /sbin @@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ all : mdadm mdadm.man md.man mdadm.conf.man mdadm : $(OBJS) - $(CC) -o mdadm $^ + $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o mdadm $^ mdadm.man : mdadm.8 nroff -man mdadm.8 > mdadm.man @@ -54,7 +57,7 @@ $(OBJS) : mdadm.h install : mdadm mdadm.8 - $(INSTALL) -m 755 mdadm $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR) + $(INSTALL) $(STRIP) -m 755 mdadm $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR) $(INSTALL) -m 644 mdadm.8 $(DESTDIR)/$(MANDIR) clean : On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello Neil , Another item of interest (at for me) . > How do I go about compiling mdadm as a static binary ? > I -really- need it to complete an install . Tia , JimL > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Friday March 15, babydr@baby-dragons.com wrote: > > > Hello Neil , What happened to the URL: for your sources ? > > > Is the below correct ? Tia , JimL > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > mdadm 0.7.1 is now available at > > > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/sources/mdadm/ > > Sorry, should be: > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ > > (I try to avoid plural directory names, but my fingers forgot that as > > I was typing the URL). > > NeilBrown > > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | > | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | > | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html