Dash not buildable with -static under debian

[scratchy]

Hey,

Got trouble building dash under debian 7.8 / 8.1. Only checked v12 dunno hows it with v11

Im running

./autoconf
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb LDFLAGS="-static"

and i get following error:

checking for SSL... yes
checking for CRYPTO... yes
checking for RAND_egd in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: Detected LibreSSL: This is NOT supported, and may break consensus compatibility!

Any idears how to solve this? libssl-dev is installed ~

[UdjinM6]

try --with-libressl
pls be aware of side effects bitcoin#6244

[scratchy]

Hey,

Thanks this did somehow the trick at least it build the dashd/cli now.

Anyways there are two issues:

First it seems on the current git version the tests are not able to build:

  CXX      test/test_test_dash-util_tests.o
  CXX      test/test_test_dash-accounting_tests.o
  CXX      test/test_test_dash-wallet_tests.o
  CXX      test/test_test_dash-rpc_wallet_tests.o
  CXXLD    libbitcoinconsensus.la
  AR       univalue/libbitcoin_univalue.a
  AR       libbitcoin_util.a
  CXXLD    dashd
  CXXLD    dash-cli
  CXXLD    dash-tx
  CXXLD    test/test_dash
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:2762: recipe for target 'test/test_dash' failed
make[2]: *** [test/test_dash] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/dash-builder/tdash/src'
Makefile:6856: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/dash-builder/tdash/src'
Makefile:557: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

i used:

git checkout v0.12.0.x && \
git reset HEAD --hard && \
./autogen.sh && \
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb LDFLAGS="-static" --with-libressl --enable-static && \
make -j 2

to build it.

The second issue is that it doesnt even build the static version of the dashd/cli:

# file tdash/src/dashd
tdash/src/dashd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=4cc1c4dc7efd4215f8fdda94f64ac152a9770681, stripped

# file tdash/src/dash-cli
tdash/src/dash-cli: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=e825892444e537cda9b4ed73b619423990c362fd, stripped

so its still dynamically linked and idears?

[UdjinM6]

Try disabling tests compilation --enable-tests=no

Not sure about static. @schinzelh any idea?

[scratchy]

enable-tests=no did not solve it at all.
Tried a bit around but its not working :(

[schinzelh]

What's the rationale of having a "fully statically linked" binary? Usually you still link some libraries dynamically even if you are doing a static build, as the static linking of e.g, libc and qt is discouraged.

See bitcoin#3781 for further reference

[schinzelh]

Anyway, in case you just want a "working binary" for your Debian, did you try
--enable-glibc-back-compat ?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4042/files

[scratchy]

The reason is the normal use-case like for every static binary:
Full portability without dependencies on the running systems. Even if the ram/space usage is a bit higher then normal.

Im using for example different versions of debian (wheezy,jessie) each of them have different libdb,libboost etc. I dont want to build the binary on each system, so i setup a build server for exactly this reason.
Now i dont want to build binarys für each constellation. I dont mind about the QT-stuff since im only using the daemon.

Overall: i got running binarys, currently im building them for each system. But in future i would like to have a static way so its portable between them~

Edit: Okay the trouble is because the "libnss_files"-library is not possible to build in a static version. This prevents a 'full' static build..

[schinzelh]

Obsolete