Building Python statically on linux

[Micah Elliott]

Are there instructions somewhere on how to build Python (on linux)
statically? This seems like a common thing to do want to do, but my
searching isn't turning up much. If it is common, it would be nice to
see a configure option like I've seen in other tools:

--enable-all-static Build completely static (standalone)
binaries.

I'm ./configure-ing with "--disable-shared" (because this must mean
"enable static", right?), and (based on some other posts here) tried
adding "*static*" near the top of Modules/Setup. I'd like to see ldd
tell me "not a dynamic executable", but alas, it's presently:

$ ldd /path/to/new/bin/python
libpthread.so.0 =/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x008e9000)
libdl.so.2 =/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x007f0000)
libutil.so.1 =/lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00df6000)
libm.so.6 =/lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x007cb000)
libc.so.6 =/lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0069f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00682000)

Do I just need to be passing something like LDFLAGS="-static ???" to
configure? I just tried that and got a bunch of "symbol rename"
warnings during the compilation, and then "make install" mysteriously
failed.

Thanks for any pointers.
--
Micah

[Christian Heimes]

Micah Elliott wrote:

I'm ./configure-ing with "--disable-shared" (because this must mean
"enable static", right?), and (based on some other posts here) tried
adding "*static*" near the top of Modules/Setup. I'd like to see ldd
tell me "not a dynamic executable", but alas, it's presently:

--disabled-shared is the default value. It does not mean that the Python
interpreter is a static linked executable. --enable-shared builds a
libpython??.so and --disable-shared links libpython into the python binary.

Christian

[Zentrader]

On Dec 27, 8:21*am, Christian Heimes <[e-mail]:

Micah Elliott wrote:

I'm ./configure-ing with "--disable-shared" (because this must mean
"enable static", right?)

I think you can just add -static to the gcc Flag line in the
makefile. "man gcc" should also be helpful but that is a pile of docs
to wade through.

[Micah Elliott]

On Dec 28, 5:44 am, Christian Heimes <[e-mail]:

Can you work on the topic and write a small howto for your wiki
(http://wiki.python.org/moin/)?

Good idea. I've created a placeholder (with what I know so far, not
much) to track this:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildStatically

I'll plan to be updating it today if I can get it working. Anyone
else is welcome to add their knowledge/experience.