Yeah, building a static binary pretty much requires you have all the
static library archives laying around your system for libc, X libs,
glib, gtk, libpng, zlib--which probably only happens if you installed
them all through source packages.
> Man, when it got to the canonical part, it raised all sorts of holy hell.
> Part of it was not finding the unixfonts directory where it was expecting
> to find it -- I'd moved it to /opt/AbiSuite/fonts, thinking that it would
> be a good place to keep a rapidly changing AbiSuite until things settle
> down a bit -- but some of the error messages seem to imply other problems.
Here's how I do it:
cd sometmpdir
cvs co abi expat unixfonts abidistfiles
cd abi
make
[wait, this part should trigger the canonical at the end]
Things should then be in abi/src/[youroperatingsystemhere]/bin
You might have to check out libpng or zlib if you don't have them
installed.
-- Shaw Terwilliger