[Unison-hackers] unison 2.13.16 output patch

[Joseph Dunn]

Well, actually the patch I submitted made STATIC=true work, at least
under Linux (the only place I need it).  Basically, I'm running unison
inside a chroot'd environment on the server side and I'm trying to keep
the number of libraries needed in the environment to a minimum.  A
statically compiled unison in a directory like /tmp/blah allows me to
run a command something like the following:

HOME=.  sudo chroot /tmp/blah  ./unison.linux-static-textui -server

It's not critical to have the patch added, but I found it useful and
thought others might.
-Joseph Dunn


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:49:44 +0200
Jerome Vouillon <Jerome.Vouillon at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:59:18PM +0300, Benjamin Pierce wrote:
> > I'm a little reluctant to apply this one without the agreement of the  
> > various packagers -- the makefiles are rather delicate because they  
> > need to work on so many different machines.
> 
> I'm not sure there is any point in building static binaries anymore.
> Under Linux, this is not really possible: the network name resolution
> library (gethostbyname, ...) cannot be linked statically.  Under
> Windows, the text version of Unison is portable, and I'm not sure one
> can find a static GTK library to compile statically the GUI version.
> 
> I suspect the "STATIC=true" compile option does not work at all at the
> moment.
> 
> -- Jerome
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