Static linked GCC toolchain

[prakash <prakash_bhurke at persistent dot co dot in>]

Hi,

I am trying to build a gcc-3.4.5 on RedHat 7.1 so that I can use it on 
following different platforms:
RH 7.1, RH7.3, RH8, RH9, RHEL2.1 RHEL4.0, FC2, FC3,etc

My requirement is to use gcc without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to location 
of libgcc_s.so, on different platform as mentioned above. I don't want 
application binaries which are generated/created as statically linked 
executables by these toolchain. I have observed that Red hat's default 
/usr/bin/gcc is statically linked gcc. I tried same configuration 
parameter (returned by #/usr/bin/gcc -v) to build it, but I could not 
able to get statically linked gcc. I could not able to find out how they 
build it on Net. Here is steps (found on net) which I tried:

# LDFLAGS=-static ../gcc-3.4.5/configure --prefix=/home/praks/GCC345 
--enable-languages=c,c++,java
#make LDFLAGS=-static bootstrap && make LDFLAGS=-static

But it creates gcc which is dependent on libgcc_s.so
-----------------------------------------------------
(praks) bin> ./gcc
./gcc: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot load 
shared object file: No such file or directory
(praks) bin> ldd ./gcc
libgcc_s.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x40023000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
(praks) bin>
-----------------------------------------------------

However, GCC configure script supports --enable-static && 
--enable-shared. With help of these flags we can build gcc toolchain 
statically linked. But binaries which are generated by these toolchain 
are statically linked executables. I want only statically gcc linked 
toolchain & I want to use this gcc toolchain on different platforms as 
mentioned earlier. It would be nice if anyone could give pointers.

Regards,
Prakash



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