On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:51:41AM +0000, Romain GEISSLER wrote: > It looks like last year a change was merge removing the need to dlopen the > backend libraries [1].
Yes, this is part of the 0.178 release. > Right now, even if I configure with flags like "—disable-shared > --enable-static" it seems that I still endup with .so files and that > tools like eu-readelf depend on it. So what is the official way > today to have a fully static build ? There is none. Sorry. > I saw BUILD_STATIC in > configure.ac, but it seems to be enabled only for gcov/gprof > builds. Would it make sense to take —disable-shared here ? Yes, that might make sense. It isn't really tested much though. So someone would have to carefully audit the build files to see if it really works as intended. Cheers, Mark