On Wed, 2010-09-15, I wrote: > However, only a few packages in Fedora provide -static variants. This > has meant that I've had to locally build these, which is obviously not > desirable from a maintenance perspective. > > So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package > variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to > encourage people to generate these packages?
Ok, the it seems that some people got the idea about why I want to be able to statically link things. Others seem to have completely misunderstood [1]. So we have to hack around the situation to achieve what we want that some other people don't want. There is an existing tool called statifier [2], but this doesn't work with VDSO randomisation, so I can't use that. Here's a script that takes an ELF file and makes a directory containing the libraries that it needs to live: https://www.studentrobotics.org/cgit/rspanton/dynpk.git/tree/ Yup, it has to take the local system's dynamic linker too (RHEL's dynamic linker made moaning noises about some difference in the way the ELF file were labelled). My script also includes an "audit" library that will force the application to exit if it attempts to load a shared library from outside the packaged directory. This approach is working for me -- and I *think* it's working for dlopen, but this is untested at this point (I'll fix it when it breaks...). Notice that the absence of -static packages hasn't actually stopped users from achieving the same results... all it's done is add a hurdle of inconvenience. Cheers, Rob [1] Yea, like I'm bothered about the security issues of my simulation! Other things I also don't care about in this situation: * Memory usage: These machines have >32GB. Size of libraries <50MB. Number of instances of this process per node <= 4. * Binary size: Unbelievably insignificant. * Library updates: I want my simulations to all be comparable... [2] http://statifier.sourceforge.net/
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