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From:   "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To:     "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>
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Subject: RE: Static Linking git for HPE NonStop
Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:26:11 -0400
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On June 26, 2020 5:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> > ... Is there anyway to force a static
> > linkage instead of using DLLs so that we can isolate this for
> > installations who want to be insulated from the confusion?
> >
> > We currently have everything encoded in config.mak.uname and do not
> > use make configure or configure explicitly. Just make.
> 
> A quick scan of our Makefile seems to say that LDFLAGS is left open for
> builder's use (i.e. we don't add hardcoded "always link dynamically" etc.
in
> there, so that somebody doing a build for a particular use case can tell
the
> linker "I want things linked statically" by adding appropriate and linker
> specific flags to it, and that propagates to ALL_LDFLAGS to be used at the
> last stage of linking the git binary itself.

Thanks. That would work just fine.

Regards,
Randall