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Statically linked GNU bash - AIX 5.2

Asked by gripe in C Programming Language

Tags: aix

I've been trying for a few hours to compile a statically linked bash on AIX 5.2 and am running into headaches. I am using GCC 3.3.2. I also have installed the automake and autoconf utilities from IBM's rpm repository. (automake 1.7.9 and autoconf 2.58)

I can compile bash without issue if I use the default configuration (./configure) but when I attempt to use the configure flag --enable-static-link it bombs. An odd thing is that when i do a default configure it seems to find a bunch of (pretty standard) library functions that it doesn't find when I use --enable-static-link. For instance: (This is just a subset, there seems to be many more)

Straight configure:

checking for getcwd... yes
checking for getegid... yes
checking for geteuid... yes
checking for getgid... yes
checking for getuid... yes

--enable-static-link:

checking for getcwd... no
checking for getegid... no
checking for geteuid... no
checking for getgid... no
checking for getuid... no

In addition, I get this error when configure runs with --enable-static-link (and not with straight configure):

checking for shared library run path origin... ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: fstatfs64
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: statfs64
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
collect2: ld returned 8 exit status

Eventually configure dies with the following message:

checking size of char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char), 77
See `config.log' for more details.

(Config log available at: http://www.icenine.ca/config.log.txt )

My LD_LIBRARY_PATH & LIBPATH are set as:

/opt/freeware/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib/

I'm not much of a C programmer and know next to nothing about configure scripts, but I'm guessing from the difference in output that there is a bug in the configure script. Has anyone ever encountered this or managed to successfully statically link bash on AIX? Any help greatly appreciated.

High grades for quick answers! :)

Thanks
 
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