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@@ -198,3 +198,58 @@ being built and linked against, but there is only a stub file in the archive.) You will see many warnings of the form: warning: unknown s_type: 98 I have no idea what this means, but it doesn't seem to matter. + +10. If you do not have /usr/ccs/bin in your PATH when building on SunOS 5.x + (Solaris 2), the configure script will be unable to find `ar' and + `ranlib' (of course, ranlib is unnecessary). Make sure your $PATH + includes /usr/ccs/bin on SunOS 5.x. + +11. Building a statically-linked bash on Solaris 2.5.x or 2.6 is complicated. + It's not possible to build a completely statically-linked binary, since + part of the C library depends on dynamic linking. The following recipe + assumes that you're using gcc and the Solaris ld (/usr/ccs/bin/ld). + + configure --enable-static-link + make STATIC_LD= LOCAL_LIBS='-Wl,-B,dynamic -ldl -Wl,-B,static' + + This should result in a bash binary that depends only on libdl.so: + + thor(2)$ ldd bash + libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 + + If you're using the Sun C Compiler (Sun WorkShop C Compiler version + 4.2 was what I used), you should be able to get away with using + + configure --enable-static-link + make STATIC_LD= LOCAL_LIBS='-B dynamic -ldl -B static' + + If you want to completely remove any dependence on /usr, perhaps + to put a copy of bash in /sbin and have it available when /usr is + not mounted, force the build process to use the shared ld.so library + in /etc/lib. + + For gcc, this would be something like + + configure --enable-static-link + make STATIC_LD= LOCAL_LIBS='-Wl,-B,dynamic -Wl,-R/etc/lib -ldl -Wl,-B,static' + + For Sun's WS4.2 cc + + configure --enable-static-link + make STATIC_LD= LOCAL_LIBS='-B dynamic -R/etc/lib -ldl -B static' + + seems to work, at least on Solaris 2.5.1: + + thor(2)$ ldd bash + libdl.so.1 => /etc/lib/libdl.so.1 + +12. Configuring bash to build it in a cross environment. Currently only + two native versions can be compiled this way, cygwin32 and x86 BeOS. + For BeOS, you would configure it like this: + + export RANLIB=i586-beos-ranlib + export AR=i586-beos-ar + export CC=i586-beos-gcc + configure i586-beos + + Similarly for cygwin32. |