From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the last episode (May 23), Darren Pilgrim said: > > I need to make use of a port during start up, but it has library > > dependencies that aren't available, before the complete library path is > > established. I've tried the following: > > > > NO_SHARED=true (added to /etc/make.conf) > > make -DNO_SHARED > > make LDFLAGS+=-static > > > > Every time, running file on the compiled program tells me that the binary is > > dynamically-linked. I couldn't find anything else in any man pages, Mk > > files, mailing lists, Google, etc. Sorry for the semi-inappropriate list > > choice, but this one would get swallowed up on -questions. > > NO_SHARED only works on programs that use the bsd.prog.mk makefile > template; I'd guess under a dozen ports do this. > > Some pieces of software have dynamic-link options hardcoded in their > Makefiles, probably as a workaround for bugs in other OSes. Those > options override -static. I can't think of a valid reason for them to > be used in FreeBSD. Search for (and remove) any occurances of > -Wl,-Bdynamic and -Wl,-Bstatic , and you should be set.
No luck on either string. I ended up getting what I wanted by going through the source Makefile and adding "-static" to the appropriate line in the target for the program I needed static-linked. Now devd can bring up my wireless NIC at boot. Works great! _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"