binutils: link statically

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/core/binutils/build b/core/binutils/build
index 67a1af16..06e14461 100755
--- a/core/binutils/build
+++ b/core/binutils/build
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
+export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static"
+export CCLD="${CC:-cc} -all-static"
+
 # Architecture specific build options
 case ${3:-$(uname -m)} in
     i*86)  archopts="--build=i686-pc-linux-musl \
                      --host=i686-pc-linux-musl \
                      --enable-64-bit-bfd" ;;
-    x86_64) archopts="--build=x86_64-pc-linux-musl \
-                      --host=x86_64-pc-linux-musl"
+    x86-64) archopts="--build=x86_64-pc-linux-musl \
+                      --host=x86-64-pc-linux-musl"
 esac
 
 cat > makeinfo <<EOF
@@ -24,13 +27,39 @@ export PATH=$PATH:$PWD
     $archopts \
     --enable-targets=x86_64-pep \
     --disable-multilib \
+    --disable-shared \
     --disable-werror \
     --disable-gdb \
     --disable-nls \
     --disable-readline \
     --disable-gprof \
     --with-mmap \
+    --with-static-standard-libraries \
     --with-system-zlib
 
-make
-make DESTDIR="$1" install
+# Linking binutils statically is HARD. configure script
+# and the main Makefile straight up ignores our flags.
+#
+# I would have never thought that linking binutils
+# statically would lead to a size reduction, but
+# it gets 2MB smaller (25 to 23MB).
+make configure-bfd
+make configure-ld
+make configure-libctf
+
+make -C libiberty CCLD="$CCLD"
+make -C bfd       CCLD="$CCLD"
+make -C libctf    CCLD="$CCLD"
+make -C ld        CCLD="$CCLD"
+
+make configure-opcodes
+make configure-binutils
+make configure-gas
+
+make -C opcodes  CCLD="$CCLD"
+make -C binutils CCLD="$CCLD"
+make -C gas      CCLD="$CCLD"
+
+for dir in libiberty bfd libctf ld opcodes binutils gas; do
+    make -C "$dir" DESTDIR="$1" install
+done