Re: Building tcpdump with static libraries

["David Laight" <David.Laight () ACULAB COM>]

> Can I know how to build tcpdump with static libraries rather than with
> shared libraries ?

Why are you trying to do this.
As Guy says in his recent posts you can't (and shouldn't) try to link
statically to all the system libraries.

If you are trying to link with a specific version of libpcap,
the look into the RPATH, RUNPATH, SONAME and NEEDED elf sections
and the use of $ORIGIN.

        David


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