[plug] building static binaries

[Luke Dudney]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:56, Luke Dudney wrote:
> I'm trying to install EtherApe 0.9.0 onto a server system which does not
> have any X or gnome libraries (libX11, libgnome, libglade etc)
> installed. Etherape's dependencies are numerous, but I'm not really keen
> on installing all of them onto this server. I'm assuming I can compile a
> static binary on my workstation and then run that on the server.
> 
> I've tried setting CFLAGS=-static but this results in an error:
> checking for u_char... yes
> checking for res_init... no
> checking for res_init in -lbind... no
> checking for res_init in -lresolv... no
> checking for __res_init in -lc... yes
> checking for res_mkquery... no
> checking for res_mkquery in -lbind... no
> checking for res_mkquery in -lresolv... no
> configure: error: No resolver library found
> 
> It compiles fine with CFLAGS unset.
> 
> Obviously I'm not going about this the right way. Can someone suggest
> how I can achieve what I'm trying to do? Is it even advisable, or should
> I just bite the bullet and install the deps?
> 
> My workstation is Fedora Core 1 and the server is RH9.
> workstation$ gcc -v
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)
> 
> Cheers
> Luke
> 

I should have mentioned that I wish to run EtherApe on the server, but
display the output on my workstation's X server via SSH forwarding.