On 24/07/2015 15:00, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > I'm happy to fix configure to check that gnutls has working static > > > libs, but we do have a much broader pre-existing problem in this respect. > > > So it seems people wanting todo static builds currently have to deal with > > > installing all the correct static bits upfront or manually disabling > > > features in configure. > > > > Ok, then it looks like a preexisting problem indeed. > > Well, not entirely. This set of configure flags used to work, > and now it does not. That's a regression.
Yes, it's indeed adding a new optional build prerequisite for the tools, and like all other prerequisites you need to install the static version manually. But special-casing gnutls makes little sense when the same problem is present for all other libraries. Paolo
