kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>Brane, any chance I could get login access to that HP-UX machine
>you've got? (I quite understand if you can't, just thought I'd ask.)
>
>
Sorry, no can do, but I can definitely test your patch.
>I'm trying to make Subversion not link in the dynamic loader at all in
>wholly static builds. This would have no effect on most systems.
>Currently, static builds link in the (static version of the) dynamic
>loader and just never use it. With this change, they wouldn't link it
>in at all. No functional difference in the client either way.
>
>But on HP-UX, it would make a difference: apparently, there's no
>static version of the dynamic loader library there, so this change
>would make it possible, finally, to produce a completely static HP-UX
>Subversion client.
>
>
Yup. This is how I diagnosed the problem some time ago. Not linking the
DSO library makes perfect sense on all platforms.
>Right now, I'm just aiming to make this work in client-only builds
>from a Subversion source-release tarball. Those have APR bundled
>inside them, so if we can just get configuration to do the following
>
> 1. Make sure APR_HAS_DSO is false
> 2. Make sure apr-config does not say "-ldl", so that SVN_APR_LIBS
> won't contain "-ldl"
>
>
You know...that's already fixed... Guess what? all you have to do is
--enable-all-static --disable-dso
When the APR configure sees --disable-dso, it does (surprise, surprise!)
exactly what you want.
>then we should be set. Our code in ra_loader.c and fs-loader.c
>already uses APR_HAS_DSO to conditionally omit the code that actually
>calls apr_dso_load(), so if we can just get that #define right, we
>wouldn't need to alter Subversion's code.
>
>On the other hand...
>
>I feel like this is such an obvious road that people must have
>traveled down it before. Am I missing some big gotcha?
>
>
The big gotcha is that it still doesn't work. Instead of not finding the
dynamic linker library, which it doesn't look for any more, it's not
finding the symbols themselves (shl_load and friends on HP-UX). Those
references are coming from libnsl.a, which is a system library. So I
think we're screwed with an all-static build on HP-UX.
-- Brane
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Received on Sat Jul 31 04:40:06 2004