Hello, I'm sorry if I'm contacting the wrong channel but I'm looking for help. I'm building a Linux distro that doesn't have dynamic linking at all or at least no dynamically linked libc, so the whole /lib is gone, and all packages are built with static linking. I'm sorry if something I say will be wrong. I'm leaning as I go.
Here comes the issue I am facing if the project I'm trying to build is using libtool for some reason libtool does not pass -static to the final linking step not matter what I attempt. but if I copy the line manually add -static to it and run it the binary comes out statically linked. but doing this manually for everything is incredibly tedious. I'm using musl-c as my libc and gcc-14.2.0. Also I do have -static in my CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDGLAGS. for example trying to build GNU gmp-6.3.0 I download the source tarball extract it with tar, navigate to the directory, make a new directory called build navigate into in and run this configure line: `../configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --enable-static` After that I just make and gen-bases and other executables come out statically linked. but trying to run make check t-bswap and other tests come out build dynamically linked. so I've navigated to the tests directory ran `make clean` and `make V=1 check 2>&1 | tee output.txt` and found the line that is wrong - these lines I think build the t-bswap: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../tests -I.. -I../.. -I/usr/include -static -c -o t-bswap.o ../../tests/t-bsw ap.c /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I/usr/include -static -no-install -L/usr/lib -static -o t-bsw ap t-bswap.o libtests.la ../ libgmp.la libtool: link: gcc -I/usr/include -o t-bswap t-bswap.o -L/usr/lib ./.libs/libtests.a /root/project/source/gmp-6.3.0/build/.libs/libgmp.a ../.libs/libgmp.a - this last line that says libtool: link: gcc does not have -static in it `t-bswap: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1, not stripped` - if I copy the line add -static to it it builds a static t-bswap `gcc -I/usr/include -o t-bswap t-bswap.o -L/usr/lib ./.libs/libtests.a /root/project/source/gmp-6.3.0/build/.libs/libgmp.a ../.libs/libgmp.a -static` `t-bswap: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped` Is there something that I'm doing wrong, or is this a bug in libtool, cause I've built other tools that don't use libtool and they build statically without an issue. Also this doesn't only happen in gmp tests. I face the same issue building file-5.46 and flex-2.6.4. probably many others.
