On Fedora, linking static libraries requires the glibc-static RPM package, which is not part of the glibc-devel package.
CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK does not check the capability of static linking, so you can enable CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH, then fail to build. HOSTLD net/bpfilter/bpfilter_umh /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Add CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC, and make CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH depend on it. Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> --- I will insert this after https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11515997/ init/Kconfig | 5 +++++ net/bpfilter/Kconfig | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 57562a8e2761..d0ff16e93794 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ config CC_CAN_LINK default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m32-flag)) +config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC + bool + default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT + default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) -static $(m32-flag)) + config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)) diff --git a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig b/net/bpfilter/Kconfig index fed9290e3b41..045144d4a42c 100644 --- a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/bpfilter/Kconfig @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ menuconfig BPFILTER if BPFILTER config BPFILTER_UMH tristate "bpfilter kernel module with user mode helper" - depends on CC_CAN_LINK + depends on CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC default m help This builds bpfilter kernel module with embedded user mode helper -- 2.25.1
