Compiling openssh statically?

[Darren Tucker]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:42:08PM -0500, Josh Wyatt wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's possible to compile openssh-4.2p1 (portable) statically.
> The platform is Linux 2.4 x86, openssl-0.9.7i, zlib-1.2.3, gcc-3.3.5.

Sure, as long as you have static versions of all required libraries
available (and they work, of course :-).  Just do something like:

./configure --with-ldflags=-static

The only thing to watch out for is OS components that load modules at
runtime (eg nss or PAM modules).  I'm not sure how those will behave.

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