[R] R static is dynamically linked!!

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You asked for R to be built as a static lib, not for the front-end to be 
statically linked. It is not the R lib it is dynamically linking to (that 
is statically linked by default whether or not you ask for a separate 
lib), but the OS components.

R depends on dlopen-ing extensions, so there is no way to make it entirely 
static.

On Mon, 19 May 2008, George Georgalis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After doing all I could find with the confiure script...
> I set some env too...
>
> export enable_R_static_lib=yes
> export want_R_static=yes
> export WANT_R_STATIC_TRUE=yes
>
> ./configure \
>        --prefix=${i} \
>        --enable-R-static-lib \
>        --enable-static \
>        --without-readline \
>        --without-iconv \
> && make \
> && make install \
> && echo "R ${v} installed in ${i}"
>
> But the result is still dynamic:
>
> ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for NetBSD 4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
> Is there some way to make this static?

Yes -- R is Open Source, so modify the souces as you wish.

> // George
>
>
>
> -- 
> George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><
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