[Ocfs2-tools-devel] The end of static binaries?

[Joel Becker]

Folks,
	libcom_err just added a dependancy on -lrt.  It's hidden from
dynamically linked programs (it loads internally to libcom_err) but is
required on the link link for statically linked programs.  This breaks
our compiles of o2fsck and o2cb_ctl because they default to static and
we don't have -lrt on the link line.
	Now, pkg-config handles this with a --static argument.  So we
have two choices:

1) Have configure.in detect this and create COM_ERR_LIBS_STATIC, which
   we then use in the static builds of o2fsck and o2cb_ctl.

2) Just remove the static compilation option.  I can't find a modern
   distro that ships fsck static, even e2fsck or xfs_check.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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