Have a look at the source and patches applied to Solaris, from the Userland Consolidation:
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland Here KSH is built deliberately static to avoid shipping libast/libations as a shared library. Cheers, Edwin Beasant > On 7 Feb 2015, at 11:47, Russell Cannon <russell.t.can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After resolving our previous build issues, we ran into another problem. Some > of the servers on which we must install the new Kornshell binary are missing > some required libraries. The servers we control have all the necessary > components, but many other servers belong to another agency and are outside > our control. The process for gaining approval for installation of new > software requires months of political wrangling among inter-agency security > authorities, and sometimes approvals are denied. What we need to do is > produce a static build of KSH so that we can provide a single, monolithic > binary. Since Kornshell is already installed on all the servers, we are > allowed to upgrade it without additional authorizations. > > We have been searching for a way to build a static binary but have not been > successful. Based on a message in the archives, we tried setting > SHOPT_DYNAMIC to 0 in the Kornshell makefile, but this had no effect on the > result. The compiled program was the exact same size as previous builds and > would still not run on the problem servers. > > There is also this statement by Dave Korn from a message posted in ast-users > on June 28, 2008: > > "if you build a dynamic [later corrected to "static"] version of ksh93, then > you will not be able to load built-ins at run time." > > Can someone explain what this means? > > These are old, HP PA-RISC servers running HP-UX 11.11. We have been entirely > successful with the binary on our own servers, but the DOD servers belonging > to another agency, which are of the same type and O/S, cannot run the > software. We know at the very least that they are missing libiconv.sl and > may be missing other libraries as well. Can anyone be of any assistance with > this? > > Cheers, > Russ Cannon, Oracle DBA > HQ AFLCMC/HIBD USAF > _______________________________________________ > ast-developers mailing list > ast-developers@lists.research.att.com > http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
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