[R] Build R-1.9.0 with static libraries ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Mélanie PELEGRINI-ISSAC wrote:

Very important information clipped here.


Quoting me with attribution:
> > ## For example, one can set flags for profiling here.
> > ## MAIN_LDFLAGS=
> > 
> > My guess is that you want -Bstatic.
> > 
> 
> Sorry to bother the mailing list again, but I'm not a specialist in 
> compiling, so I'm quite lost...
> 
> I tried
> MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Bstatic
> in config.site
> 
> Incidentally, after running configure I get in Makeconf file the 
> following flag
> MAIN_LDFLAGS = -Bstatic -Wl,--export-dynamic
> 
> R compiles fine, however when I try to run it from another machine I get 
> the following error
> myDirectory/R.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libg2c.so.0: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> So I think it didn't solve my problem... and R still looks for shared 
> objects. I tried
> MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Bstatic -static-libgcc
> in config.site
> but it didn't work either.

Note, it says

## The flags which are necessary for loading main program which will
## load DLLs at runtime.  HP-UX and Linux-elf are examples of platforms
## which use this.  These platforms are already taken care of by
## configure, and anything set here will be in addition unless MAIN_LD
## is given.
## For example, one can set flags for profiling here.
## MAIN_LDFLAGS=

so please set MAIN_LD as it suggests (and that's why I quoted the whole 
thing for you to read!)

> How can I force R to use static versions of shared objects such as
> LIBS =  -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lm
> FLIBS = -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
> ???

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