That's what file and ldd report on gsi compiled  on Ubuntu Linux (no static/dynamic related options supplied to configure):

file gsi

gsi: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

ldd gsi         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f9e000)         libutil.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7f88000)         libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f84000)         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f5e000)         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e0f000)         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9f000)

The problem is that such an executable may be incompatible with some  another  Linux  - if it has some older version of libc, for example.    I've tried explicit --disable-shared just in case, but it does not make gsi static...

Best regards,                Kirill.

--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:

From: Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Static GSI To: "Kirill Lisovsky" k_lisovsky@yahoo.com Cc: "Bradley Lucier" lucier@math.purdue.edu, gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca Received: Friday, May 15, 2009, 11:02 PM

On May 15, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Kirill Lisovsky wrote: I'd like to compile Gambit  interpreter as a static executable. I think by default it's static (unless you configure with --enable-shaared). Brad

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