Bug 11856

Summary:	Busybox static build fails due to missing libtirpc
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Pete Morici <pmorici>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	2019.02.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Pete Morici 2019-05-10 03:59:54 UTC

The busybox build fails if the CONFIG_STATIC option is selected in the busybox config.  The failure is caused by a missing static library libtirpc.

The libtirpc package doesn't build a static version by default.  The --enable-static option needs to be added to LIBTIRPC_CONF_OPTS in package/libtirpc/libtirpc.mk

Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2019-05-10 07:29:22 UTC

This is not a bug. By default Buildroot has the option BR2_SHARED_LIBS=y, which means "build only shared libraries, link everything dynamically".

If you set BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y instead, then only static libraries will be built, and everything will be statically linked.

If you set BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS=y, then both static and shared libraries will be built (when possible: some sub-par build systems only allow building either static or shared libs, not both), and programs will generally be linked dynamically, unless their build system explicitly links statically.