From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-09-30T06:58:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Purely static build of Ruby

rcoder@gmail.com wrote:

>Eric Schwartz wrote:
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>>Actually, ia-32 shared libraries can be loaded just fine on Itanium;
>>depending on your distribution, this may require installing some
>>compatibility libraries, but there's no problem there.  Contact your
>>distribution vendor for more information.  If you're using Debian,
>>contact the maintainer for the ia32-libs package.
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>There is somewhat of a problem with installing compatibility libraries,
>since I'm trying to build a single binary package which can be
>distributed to customers who may be running IA-32, or may be using
>Itanium. We can't require that end users install other packages for
>compatibility, since our stuff is supposed to work on a "bare" install
>of Red Hat.
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>If nothing else, I can always just include IA-32 and Itanium .SO files,
>and import the proper set at runtime, but I'm trying to minimize the
>distributed file size. Unfortunately, total size is a big deal, because
>I'm being pressured to use a language other than Ruby to build our tool
>if I can't come up with a simple cross-platform support solution.
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>If distributing either the compatibility libraries, or versions of the
>shared libs for both platforms, pushes the file size over that of a
>static C++ or Java (via GCJ) binary, then one of my current key
>arguments for Ruby (smaller distribution size due to .rb source files
>being more compact than equivalent binaries) ceases to be true, and
>higher forces may make me switch to a compiled language.
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>So, I'm just trying to get a feel for whether it's even possible to
>build Ruby as purely-static binary with OpenSSL support. If not, then I
>can look into distributing a bunch of compatibility libraries, but that
>gets ugly quickly once you have at least two major libc versions and
>two architectures to support.
>
>Lennon
>rcoder.net
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Static ruby on Redhat requires you to download the static libraries of 
the software you need. Most of the software is shared, the libraries are 
shared. Few software in the OS are static, therefore you need *every* 
static library you will need. Depending on which Redhat version you 
have. Its easy to perform what you are needing to do.

--dross

yes I know redhat because I just now. Everyone just hush if they think 
about jumping on my BSDism :)


Yes, it is possible on Redhat, but you need to download the rpms that have