Static binaries on AIX and Solaris

From: Jason Grove <jgrove(at)wvu.edu>
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 13:56:33 EST

According to the FAQ on :
<http://www.ssh.com/support/faq/secureshellserver/qa_191_687.html> I should be able to build the sftp-server as a static binary. However the when adding the --enable-static=yes to the configure line it still only builds the shared ones. I need to build the static version to chroot some people to a home directory. Does any one know how to do it?

The info I found on ssh.com about building static binaries for AIX does not work for me:

/home/grove/ssh/ssh-3.2.2>CFLAGS="-bnso -bl:/usr/lib/syscalls.exp" ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking distribution consistency... done

checking host system type... powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0
checking target system type... powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0
checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0
checking cached information... ok

checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing

checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing

checking whether building in source directory... yes checking using purify... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for gcc... /usr/vac/bin/xlc
checking whether the C compiler (/usr/vac/bin/xlc -bnso -bl:/usr/lib/syscalls.exp ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

I have also tried using the /usr/vac/bin/cc with the -bstatic option. The compiler on AIX is IBM's Visual Age C++ 5.0....

On solaris I am using Forte 6, but the --enable-static=yes is not picked up. (I looked in the configure file and the stuff for solaris is commented out, which contradicts their FAQ saying that it will work...)

Any help would be appreciated....

jason

(PS going to OpenSSH is not an option...)

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Received on Wed Dec 25 02:22:49 2002