Static Linking

[Malte Gell]

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Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2004 16:15 schrieb Raphael Susewind:

> is it possible to do complete static linking for gnupg, and how? My
> maximum achievement was still dependent on libc6 and ld-linux. Can I
> avoid this?

export CFLAGS="-static"
export CXXFLAGS="-static"
then the usual steps to build gpg.

Though, I guess setting CXXFLAGS is not needed with GnuPG...?

See:
[malte_gell at linux]/tmp/gpg-test/bin· ldd gpg
        not a dynamic executable

Keep in mind, if there's a flaw in libc6 or elsewhere you have to build 
GnuPG again, because the flaw is now hardwired to your static gpg. To 
use GnuPG on a machine which doesn't have the things needed to build/
run GnuPG is the only reason I can imagine why to do this, or what is 
your reason? Under normal circumstances it shouldn't be done I think.

Malte
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