I am trying to compile the iputils package on FC12 statically but badly stuck up on a below error.
My requirement is; I need to have ping utility built statically.

Any clue whats missing here? Per my understanding its trying to locate the glibc and when I search for glibc rpm I can see all those packages are properly installed.

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[root@bastionNUX iputils-s20100418]# make LDFLAGS="-static -s"
gcc -static -s ping.o ping_common.o -o ping
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ping] Error 1

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[root@bastionNUX iputils-s20100418]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-common-2.11-2.i686
glibc-headers-2.11-2.i686
glibc-devel-2.11-2.i686
glibc-2.11-2.i686
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Looks like you don't have a static C library in your linker's search path. Try running `whereis libc` or `locate libc.a` and see if there's a file called libc.a anywhere on your system. If not, have a hunt through whatever package management system Fedora has.

The static "libc.a" ( = lc ) is in a separate package :

# yum install glibc-static

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yeah looks like I dont have libc.a but I guess glibc-devel package does provide that and when I do rpm query I can see its listed there.

No : rpm -ql glibc-devel | grep libc
→ no libc.a ( there's a libc_nonshared.a ).


Install 'glibc-static', then it's provided.

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