Re: Static apt for upgrading old Debian releases?
On Mon, 1 May 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> Question: now all apt-things are static, but... does apt-* need dpkg(-*)
> for any purpose????
Yes.. and dpkg needs tar, and gzip, and a bunch of other odd ball things
(like cat, don't ask)
> PS: My terrible but working kludges:
PPS:
make STATICLIBS=yes LFLAGS=-static
Makes static binaries. You don't actually have to change anything.
Use ONLYSTATICLIBS=yes if you don't want to wait for the shared library to
build too. Not building a shlib means the resulting apt package cannot
provide support for capt, aptitude and gnome-apt.
Jason
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