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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>
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Subject: libtool makes it impossible to build a package statically
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Hi,
Summary
-------
The processing of the '-static' option by "libtool --mode=link" makes it
impossible to build a package in such a way that
1) all libraries are static,
2) all binaries are statically linked (ldd reports "not a dynamic executable").
Motivation
----------
There are many use-cases of statically linked binaries. In my case it's
because I want to run programs under qemu in "user mode", and for big-endian
CPUs currently only statically linked binaries work. [1]
Details
-------
In packages that don't create shared libraries and therefore don't use libtool,
the way to achieve statically linked binaries (assuming GCC) is simple:
$ ./configure LDFLAGS="-static"
For packages that create *only* shared libraries, the GNU libtool manual
provides a solution [2][3]:
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-all-static"
But this is not a general solution: Some packages, like GNU libffcall,
create shared libraries AND static libraries. But there is only 1 LDFLAGS
parameter that can be passed to 'configure'.
'configure' (thankfully!) does not take 2 different variables LDFLAGS
(for non-libtool linking) and LTLDFLAGS (for libtool linking), because
the use of libtool is an internal detail of a package, and the user who
wants to install it should not see added complexity because of libtool.
So,
1) $ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-static"
does not work for producing statically linked binaries because libtool
intercepts the 'static' option. The result (according to 'ldd') is
a binary that is linked against the *shared* libc.
2) $ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-all-static"
does not work because GCC does not understand a '-all-static' option.
3) The hint given in [4]
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-Xcompiler -static"
does not work because GCC does not understand a '-Xcompiler' option.
How to reproduce
----------------
$ wget https://haible.de/bruno/gnu/libiconv-20170715.tar.gz
1) $ tar xvfz libiconv-20170715.tar.gz
$ cd libiconv-20170715
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-static"
$ make
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst
$ LC_ALL=C ldd /tmp/inst/usr/local/bin/iconv
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff1a74d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fddde90b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005580e2f6c000)
2) $ tar xvfz libiconv-20170715.tar.gz
$ cd libiconv-20170715
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-all-static"
...
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/libiconv-20170715':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
3) $ tar xvfz libiconv-20170715.tar.gz
$ cd libiconv-20170715
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-Xcompiler -static"
...
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/libiconv-20170715':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
Past reports
------------
In 2004, this was discussed here: [5] already gave the solution, namely to
rename libtool's options. [6] gives the rationale.
For the specific case of GNU binutils, it was reported in 2011: [7][8]
Reported again in 2012: [9][10]
My workaround
-------------
I work around it with the solution from [5]. Instead of '-lt-static'
I chose '-static-uninstalled-libs', in order to reduce the confusion
with the existing option '-static-libtool-libs'.
Patch attached. It touches only the *link* mode of libtool. I don't
see a reason for touching the *compile* mode of libtool, since the
right place for the '-static' option is LDFLAGS, not CFLAGS. [11]
With this patch, it works as expected:
$ tar xvfz libiconv-20170715.tar.gz
$ cd libiconv-20170715
$ patch -p1 < /tmp/libtool-allow-static.diff
$ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-static"
$ make
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/inst
$ LC_ALL=C ldd /tmp/inst/usr/local/bin/iconv
not a dynamic executable
Best regards,
Bruno
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1701798
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/LT_005fINIT.html
[3] https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_59.html#Linking-against-Libtool-Libraries-with-Automake
[4] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11064
[5] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/msg00017.html
[6] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/msg00024.html
[7] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00159.html
[8] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13891
[9] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11064
[10] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2012-03/msg00011.html
[11] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html
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diff --git a/build-aux/ltmain.sh b/build-aux/ltmain.sh
index 0f0a2da..1d0185a 100644
--- a/build-aux/ltmain.sh
+++ b/build-aux/ltmain.sh
@@ -3720,6 +3720,7 @@ a program from several object files.
The following components of LINK-COMMAND are treated specially:
-all-static do not do any dynamic linking at all
+ -static do not do any dynamic linking at all
-avoid-version do not add a version suffix if possible
-bindir BINDIR specify path to binaries directory (for systems where
libraries must be found in the PATH setting at runtime)
@@ -3746,7 +3747,8 @@ The following components of LINK-COMMAND are treated specially:
-R[ ]LIBDIR add LIBDIR to the runtime path of programs and libraries
-shared only do dynamic linking of libtool libraries
-shrext SUFFIX override the standard shared library file extension
- -static do not do any dynamic linking of uninstalled libtool libraries
+ -static-uninstalled-libs
+ do not do any dynamic linking of uninstalled libtool libraries
-static-libtool-libs
do not do any dynamic linking of libtool libraries
-version-info CURRENT[:REVISION[:AGE]]
@@ -6573,9 +6575,9 @@ func_mode_link ()
build_old_libs=no
break
;;
- -all-static | -static | -static-libtool-libs)
+ -all-static | -static | -static-uninstalled-libs | -static-libtool-libs)
case $arg in
- -all-static)
+ -all-static | -static)
if test yes = "$build_libtool_libs" && test -z "$link_static_flag"; then
func_warning "complete static linking is impossible in this configuration"
fi
@@ -6584,7 +6586,7 @@ func_mode_link ()
fi
prefer_static_libs=yes
;;
- -static)
+ -static-uninstalled-libs)
if test -z "$pic_flag" && test -n "$link_static_flag"; then
dlopen_self=$dlopen_self_static
fi
@@ -6883,7 +6885,7 @@ func_mode_link ()
prevarg=$arg
case $arg in
- -all-static)
+ -all-static | -static)
if test -n "$link_static_flag"; then
# See comment for -static flag below, for more details.
func_append compile_command " $link_static_flag"
@@ -7174,9 +7176,9 @@ func_mode_link ()
continue
;;
- -static | -static-libtool-libs)
- # The effects of -static are defined in a previous loop.
- # We used to do the same as -all-static on platforms that
+ -static-uninstalled-libs | -static-libtool-libs)
+ # The effects of -static-uninstalled-libs are defined in a previous
+ # loop. We used to do the same as -all-static on platforms that
# didn't have a PIC flag, but the assumption that the effects
# would be equivalent was wrong. It would break on at least
# Digital Unix and AIX.
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