RE: Problem with static build on Linux

["Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Folks,

I have now reproduced the problem with static builds on Linux (Redhat 8)
even with the simple exampleApp that is distributed with EPICS base
(3.14.2).  

I added the following line to exampleApp/configure/CONFIG
STATIC_BUILD=YES

and rebuilt exampleApp.

When I run the application I get the following:
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millenia> ../../bin/linux-x86/myexample st.cmd
dbLoadDatabase("../../dbd/myexample.dbd",0,0)
registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)
dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample1.db","user=epicsHost")
dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=epicsHost,no=1,scan=1
second")
dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=epicsHost,no=2,scan=2
second")
dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbExample2.db","user=epicsHost,no=3,scan=5
second")
dbLoadRecords("../../db/dbSubExample.db","user=epicsHost")
iocInit()
########################################################################
####
########################################################################
####
Starting iocInit
########################################################################
####
Starting iocInit
###  EPICS IOC CORE built on May 22 2003
###  EPICS R3.14.2 $R3-14-2$ $2003/03/18 22:44:29$
########################################################################
####
Record epicsHost:subExample called mySubInit(0x8289f48, 0x8063500)
Segmentation fault
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I then ran the debugger on the resulting core file.

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millenia> gdb ../../bin/linux-x86/myexample core.7772
.....
Core was generated by `../../bin/linux-x86/myexample st.cmd'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x08184f04 in nss_getline ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x08184f04 in nss_getline ()
#1  0x08184749 in nss_parse_file ()
#2  0x08184374 in __nss_database_lookup ()
#3  0x0818564a in __nss_passwd_lookup ()
#4  0x0818085f in getpwuid_r ()
#5  0x081803dc in getpwuid ()
#6  0x080e0b15 in osiGetUserName ()
#7  0x080b3dc6 in cac::cac(cacNotify&) ()
#8  0x080ae432 in ca_client_context::ca_client_context(bool) ()
#9  0x080a686e in ca_context_create ()
#10 0x080912c3 in dbCaTask ()
#11 0x080dfaf1 in start_routine ()
#12 0x080e81a9 in pthread_start_thread ()
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This has now been reproduced on 3 separate Redhat 8 machines.  Andrew
Johnson built on a Redhat 9 machine, and the resulting static binary
worked when run under both Redhat 9 and Redhat 8.  It would be great if
some other folks could try this on Redhat 8 and 9 and see if it is
actually a version problem.  Any ideas why it does not work on Redhat 8
would be most welcome.

Thanks,
Mark Rivers