On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:11:37PM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 07:09 PM, Ian Kumlien wrote:
> > Sometimes, when you least expect it, a static binary is what you need to
> > rescue your data... Or just get a good enough handle on things to make
> > it work again ;)
> You certainly have a good point. I took q quick look on Fedora 18 and
> e2fsprogs has a separate static package but xfsprogs, jfsutils, and
> reiserfs-utils do not. On the other hand, those without a separate
> static package may be only static.
>
> I guess it depends how much bloat there would be with static only. For
> e2fsprogs, the static package only contains the static (".a")
> libraries. I believe your patch makes all of the binaries static linked.
Yes, 'btrfs' is my main goal
> Is this necessary? 1) Btrfs fixes a lot of stuff on-the fly. 2) If you
> need to recover "standalone", rescue has btrfs.
I have needed this on several ocations, f.ex. running a ubuntu livecd on
one machine to try to fix something - compiling it on another machine and
then copying it and running it on the affected machine.
In some cases this has been to get a hold of a specific version of
btrfs-progs
> I did a quick check and most of the btrfs binaries are less than 200K
> bytes whereas the static versions are around 1.2M bytes. I know that
> disk space is cheap these days but does this solve a real problem?
Non stripped btrfs here is 2.4 MB, stripped 1.1 MB - this is 64 bit gcc
4.7.2.
My patch adds a compile target to allow you to build static binaries,
it's something i have manually hardcoded in to various btrfs-progs.
> Gene
> >
> > "make static" is a gift to you, dear user with filesystem problems!
> > ---
> > Makefile | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 4894903..9148d0b 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -117,4 +117,8 @@ install: $(progs) install-man
> > $(INSTALL) -m755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
> > $(INSTALL) $(progs) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
> >
> > +static: CFLAGS += -static
> > +static: LIBS += -lpthread
> > +static: all
> > +
> > -include .*.d
>
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