[Announcement] Tinc version 1.1pre10 released

[Lance Fredrickson]

Thanks for this tips, got it to work.
-Lance Fredrickson

On 2/11/2014 3:25 AM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:44:57PM -0700, Lance Fredrickson wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble compiling this.  I typically create a static
>> binary for mips devices for use in routers of different firmwares.
>> Typically I create static libraries on which tinc is dependent  (lzo
>> zlib openssl ncurses readline) . In this release, tinc doesn't see
>> the static libraries, just the development .h files when running
>> ./configure.  So I compiled static and shared libraries, so it will
>> make it through the configure script.  Then when I compile tinc I
>> run
>>
>> make LIBS="-static -lcrypto -ldl -llzo2 -lz"
>> and this typcically will give me static binaries.
> "-static" should be in $LDFLAGS, not in $LIBS. Also, if you manually set $LIBS,
> you are overriding the set of libraries that the configure script found. It
> could be that that is the problem in your case (linker error messages are not
> always very clear as to what the real reason for the errors are). You can replace:
>
> $MAKE LIBS="-static -lcrypto -ldl -llzo2 -lz"
> make install DESTDIR=$BASE/tinc
>
> With one line:
>
> $MAKE install LDFLAGS=-static DESTDIR=$BASE/tinc
>
>> I think maybe it's trying to static link to libc. For some reason
>> this release is hating anything I try to link statically.
> It could also be that some libraries, that are normally found by the dynamic
> linker at runtime, are missing when compiling statically. For example,
> libreadline and libncurses normally depend on libtinfo, so when compiling
> statically you have to add -ltinfo to $LIBS.
>
>
>
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