Re: [Dar-support] Problems building dar_static

[Mihai M. <io...@io...>]

* On 7/18/19 11:56 AM, Denis Corbin wrote:
> none of the Debian based distro (Ubuntu, Devuan, ...) nor Debian itself
> seem to provide static version of libcurl. You thus need to compile it
> by yourself and install it (making or not a package of it) in order to
> be able to compile dar_static with full options.

Uh, they do. In either one of the libcurl4-{gnutls,nss,openssl}-dev packages on
Debian/Ubuntu. Other distros should likewise provide it in other packages. I
guess the OpenSSL variant is the default, so I'd use that.


> As an alternative you can also fetch the dar_static binaries I provide
> on ftp://ftp.dm3c.org/ they should work for any Linux system with x86-64
> CPU. If you need it for another system or CPU tell me, I will look
> forward to provide it too if possible.

Might be nitpicking, but even with that you'll into problems. I recently had to
upgrade a kernel and started seeing a lot of binaries from CentOS 6 fail,
because the VSYSCALL emulation was turned off by default and these binaries
still use them. The static binary might run fine if it's not bundling a libc,
but that's more or less just a guess. Users should be aware that even static
binaries can problematic sometimes.



Mihai