Linux: How to statically link against system libs?

[Spacen Jasset]

On 08/05/2011 12:59, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>  wrote in message
> news:iq2g72$ngp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> Aggghhhh!!! God damnnit, I officially fucking hate linux now... (not that
>> I'm a win, mac or bsd fan, but whatever...)
>>
>> I temporarily gave up trying to actually get ahold of an old distro, so I
>> tried the other angles (not counting just simply *wishing* it was like win
>> and I could just copy the damn binary over to another linux box...nooo,
>> that would be too simple for a unix-style system):
>>
>> I got my web host to switch me to a server that has 32-bit libs installed
>> (a pain in and of itself because I had to coordinate with a client to find
>> a convenient downtime, and then I ended up needing to change my domain's
>> DNS entires, so now my whole domain's down for a couple days)...And it
>> make no difference. So I guess in my particular case it wasn't a
>> 32-bit/64-bit issue at all (or maybe there still would have been that
>> problem too, I dunno).
>>
>> So I went to try uClibc:
>>
>> I started my Linux box...and it decides to hang mid-startup. So I reboot
>> and at least this time the dumb thing finishes booting (I had problems
>> with linux randomly breaking for no apperent reason ten years ago with
>> Mandrake and Red Hat. I can't believe it's still happening now).
>>
>> Anyway, at the uClibc site, I saw the "simple steps" here:
>> http://uclibc.org/toolchains.html and thought "Uhh, hell no, not if I
>> don't have to" and went to the link for the pre-built verison instead. The
>> link was broken. Then the page says those are really old versions anyway.
>> Great :/
>>
>> So I go through the steps: I get to the part where I download buildroot.
>> Copy/paste the link over to my linux box...and discover that Synergy+ has
>> suddenly decided it no longer feels like offering the "shared clipboard"
>> feature that always worked before.
>>
>> Ok, so I type the URL into my linux box manually, download buildroot,
>> unpack it...so far so good...and follow the instruction to run "make
>> menuconfig"...BARF. It fails with some error about ncurses being missing,
>> and that I should get ncurses-devel. "sudo apt-get install ncurses-devel":
>> Can't find package. "sudo apt-get install ncurses": Can't find package.
>> "sudo apt-get install fuck-shit-cock": Can't find package.
>>
>> Google "ncurses deb package". Actually found it. Download. Run...You ready
>> for this? Here's the message: "Error: A later version is already
>> installed." SERIOUSLY?!
>>
>> This is the point where I would normally say "fuck this shit", but the
>> thought of continuing to use PHP (even if it is via Haxe) is enough to
>> keep me bashing my head against this wall. Next stop: See if I can get
>> ahold of *some* version of CentOS and see if using that in a VM will
>> manage to work. (And rip Kubuntu off my Linux box and see if I can replace
>> it with Debian+XFCE. How is it possible that GNOME and KDE were both
>> fairly ok ten years ago, at least as far as I can remember, but the latest
>> versions of both are complete shit? And then there's that iOS garbage that
>> Ubuntu is moving to now (The one main thing I've always disliked about
>> Ubuntu is their incompresensible Apple-envy, which only seems to be
>> increasing). And fuck, the latest KDE actually makes the Win7 UI seem good
>> (at least the Win7 UI actually *works* and has some semblance of
>> consistency, even as obnoxious as it is), and I could have sworn that KDE
>> never used to be so completely broken before. Or broken at all, for that
>> matter. Which is too bad, because Dolphin actually shows some promise...at
>> least when it isn't doing the
>> random-horizontal-scrolling-for-no-apparent-reason dance.)
>>
>
> Yay! I've just had some success! I managed to find this:
>
> http://vault.centos.org/
>
> Which has all the CentOS ISOs. (You'd think I would have had an easier time
> finding that URL...)
>
> I downloaded 4.2 (picked pretty much at random), installed it in VirtualBox,
> compiled a trivial test C program in the included GCC, uploaded that to the
> server, and it worked! :)
>
> Next step: Install DMD on this CentOS VM and try for a D cgi...
>
> And then later, I may try 4.7, see if that'll work for me too. And I still
> have another web host I need to get CGI working on (although that one has
> some pretty bad support, so I'm a little nervous about that). But it's
> looking good so far. Finegrs crossed...
>
> I'd be nice to not have to use a VM to compile, of course. But as long as I
> can I have some way to do my server-side web stuff in D, and *completely*
> sidestep the entire PHP runtime, then it'll certainly still be well worth
> it.
>
>
It should work,but again is depends what your target platform is. It's 
quite important that - Even on windows. At the company I am now 
contracting for we compile the software agents using visual studio 2003 
because later versions do not let the agent work with windows 98. This 
is not just a Linux phenomenon.

Centos 4 is fairly new, and it's possible that your hosting providers 
use older, even unsupported versions of distributions. Centos 3 might 
have been a wiser bet. In any case centos 4.7 is a point release of 4.0 
and as such there should be no breaking libc changes.