[Announcement] Tinc version 1.1pre10 released

[Lance Fredrickson]

I think the inclusion of -pie is what was throwing my initial setup 
off.  Another (much older) toolchain I also use, I have to remove -pie 
in order to compile a completely static binary.
-Lance Fredrickson

On 2/11/2014 7:32 AM, Lance Fredrickson wrote:
> 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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