Apple has never guaranteed support for fully static binaries, rather it has explicitly discouraged them.
The reason is that Apple wants to be free to change the binary interface for system calls. My understanding is that they are, in general, implemented by sending Mach messages from a dylib that is in the frameworks that most userspace links to, into the kernel. The ABI between userspace code and those dylibs is - for the most part - constant, but one cannot count on the private ABI between the system framework dylibs and the kernel. In principle you can still make a fully-static binary work, but if this is your problem, you will have to figure out what changed in Apple's private kernel ABI. I'm not so sure I'm cool with this but it is a fact that Apple has always been clear that it does not support system calls directly into the kernel. I'll send you my bill in the mail. Michael David Crawford [email protected] http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:17 PM, René J.V. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Have you asked your users to start the executable in the debugger to see >> if the SIGTERM results from an abort function being called or something >> else? > > > 9 is SIGKILL, not SIGTERM. > > I am under the impression that Apple doesn't like fully static executables > any more; it's possible that 10.10 just refuses to run them now. Console.app > might show what's going on. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > [email protected] [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
