compiling static binaries

[Han Boetes]

For anybody trying to build a static binary:


Glibc static binaries are not backwards compatible: to get really
static binaries you'd have to compile them with musl libc.

The easiest way for me was to set up a VM with alpine linux. Then I
configured and build rsync and at the end ran these commands to get a
static binary:

cp /usr/lib/libacl.a .
gcc -static -O2 -Wall -static-libgcc -W -o rsync $(find . -name '*.o') libacl.a
strip rsync

And the resulting binary works fine on an ancient (2008) machine.



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