[Nix-dev] Re: nix trunk coredumps on AIX. Where is --enable-static-nix option?

[Olexiy Buyanskyy]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Olexiy Buyanskyy <olexiyb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have issues to run the latest trunk version of nix-env on AIX.
> I think this is related to missing support of --enable-static-nix option.
> I see this was removed after merge of SQLite branch.
> I am not 100% why this coredump happening, but I just know that
> --enable-static-nix helped for me to get rid of those difficult to
> explain coredumps.
> I also took snapshot of sources before SQLLite branch merge and was
> able to compile and pass all tests.

I added back in configure
LDFLAGS="-all-static $LDFLAGS"
and all 31 tests passed.
I think we need to return --enable-static-nix option. I suspect that
this option was created for cygwin originally.

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Olexiy Buyanskyy