Re: Is this the way to configure for static build of octave 3.6.1?

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Mar-2012, Corbin Champion wrote:

| On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Corbin Champion <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
|     Are these the extra switches needed?
| 
|     --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dl
| 
|     Just want to confirm.  I ran into an issue, but it may not be related to
|     this. 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| I have running configure and make in the normal way and all is fine.  This is
| the problem I am getting when using these options:
| 
| make[3]: Circular DLD-FUNCTIONS/__delaunayn__.la <- liboctinterp.la dependency
| dropped.
| /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++ -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
| -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
| -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -O -pthread -O -avoid-version -module
| -no-undefined     -o DLD-FUNCTIONS/__delaunayn__.la  DLD-FUNCTIONS/
| DLD_FUNCTIONS___delaunayn___la-__delaunayn__.lo liboctinterp.la ../liboctave/
| liboctave.la ../libcruft/libcruft.la   -lm
| libtool: link: cannot find the library `liboctinterp.la' or unhandled argument
| `liboctinterp.la'
| 
| Is this a known issue?  Any suggestions?

What version?

I checked in some changes recently to allow "static" building to work.

Note that linking the final executable with a linker option like
"-static" to produce a truly static executable will only work if your
OS allows it.  A static build on my GNU/Linux system still depends on
shared system libraries.  But the Octave executable file has all of
the .oct files, libcruft, liboctave, and liboctinterp linked together
in one file.

jwe