Hi Charles, If you just want to run mosh on CentOS 6, it's available in the EPEL repository (e.g., https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/mosh-1.2.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm). If you add the EPEL repository (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) you can just "yum install mosh".
Sincerely, -Alex On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Keith Winstein <kei...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hello Charles, > > Assume that was you on IRC just now, but you may have missed my > response. In my experience, linking mosh-server statically basically > works fine -- the NSS stuff is generally a non-issue. My technique is > just to do ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make. Then I rm > src/frontend/mosh-server and run "make V=1" to see the actual linking > command-line. Then I take that command-line, remove -fPIE and -pie, > and add -static at the very end. Done. > > I'm sure there's a fancier way to do it too that involves arguments to > ./configure, and maybe somebody will chime in, but please do let me > know if this doesn't do the trick for you. In general you probably > don't want to add a .a archive on the linking command line -- even > when linking statically, you do want the default arguments (probably > -lprotobuf, but whatever pkg-config gives you) with a -static on the > end, and the right thing will happen. > > Cheers, > Keith > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Charles Curtit <c.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi people, >> >> >> I'm trying to run mosh on centos 6 machines. And to a large extent, I >> have succeeded to do that in the "normal" way. ie: compile stuff on >> the machines I will use, and modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH adequately. >> >> What I'm trying to do now is avoid having to modify the >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH env on all machines, avoid having to compile protobuf >> on all machines. Since I need to do that because of protobufs, I'm >> looking for a way to statically link protobuf into the binary then >> distributed that. I have so far failed. >> >> When I statically compile the whole binary, I run into problems with >> glibc (because of nss mostly, and missing dlopen, dl* symbols), and >> when I try to statically link only /usr/local/lib/libprotobuf.a, I run >> into trouble at link time for this library. >> >> >> I compile protobufs like this: >> >> ./configure (tried --disable-shared and --static and both without >> success, the error is always the same when compiling mosh) >> make >> make install (goes to /usr/local/lib/protobufs....) >> >> Then I compile mosh like so: >> >> ./configure protobuf_LIBS="/usr/local/lib/libprotobuf.a" >> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/" >> make >> >> And after a little while I get this : >> CXXLD mosh-client >> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libprotobuf.a(common.o): relocation >> R_X86_64_32S against `std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, >> std::allocator<char> >::_Rep::_S_empty_rep_storage' can not be used >> when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC >> /usr/local/lib/libprotobuf.a: could not read symbols: Bad value >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> make[3]: *** [mosh-client] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/mosh-1.2.5/src/frontend' >> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/mosh-1.2.5/src' >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/mosh-1.2.5' >> make: *** [all] Error 2 >> >> >> Don't know how to make this work... If I replace libprotobuf.a by >> libprotobuf.so, it compiles ok, but checking with ldd, the binaries >> produced do dynamic linking against libprotobuf.so, which is what I'm >> trying to avoid. >> >> I can't wrap my head around what exactly does protobuf_LIBS and the >> interaction with PKG_CONFIG_PATH, so perhaps there is something >> there... >> Thanks for any help ! >> Charles. >> _______________________________________________ >> mosh-users mailing list >> mosh-users@mit.edu >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-users > _______________________________________________ > mosh-users mailing list > mosh-users@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-users _______________________________________________ mosh-users mailing list mosh-users@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-users