[plug] binutils statically linked

[James Devenish]

In message <20040920145331.GB1055 at postoffice.wa.bom.gov.au>
on Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:53:31PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:21:59PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > ./configure --prefix=/tools -disable-nls

Just with regards to that line, shouldn't "-disable-nls" really be
"--disable-nls"?

> > make LDFLAGS="-all-static"

Do you know which programme uses -all-static? (Just wondering.)

> > I am told that :      /tools/bin/ranlib: permission denied

Russell's ideas are all good. Can you also run:

% file /tool/bin/ranlib

Does it verify that ranlib is not a dynamically-linked executable? The
reason I ask is that I have a feeling that "permission denied" can also
occur if the permissions on ld.so or ld-linux.so are not correct (e.g.
it might be looking at /tools/lib/ld.so and the permissions on that file
might not be correct). I realise that this should not be the case for
you, since your executables are supposedly statically linked, but it may
be worthwhile ruling it out definitively.