Hello,

I try to compile the 1.12.13 (issue from http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/). but apparrently, there is a collision/conflit between libc.a and regex_internal.c)

Any idea ?

# setenv LDFLAGS -static
# configure
# make

.....
gcc  -g -O2  -static -Lno/lib -o cvs  add.o admin.o annotate.o buffer.o checkin.o checkout.o classify.o client.o commit.o create_adm.o cvsrc.o diff.o edit.o entries.o error.o exithandle.o expand_path.o fileattr.o filesubr.o find_names.o hardlink.o hash.o history.o ignore.o import.o lock.o log.o log-buffer.o login.o logmsg.o ls.o main.o mkmodules.o modules.o ms-buffer.o myndbm.o no_diff.o parseinfo.o patch.o rcs.o rcscmds.o recurse.o release.o remove.o repos.o root.o rsh-client.o run.o scramble.o server.o stack.o status.o subr.o tag.o update.o version.o vers_ts.o watch.o wrapper.o zlib.o  ../diff/libdiff.a ../lib/libcvs.a ../zlib/libz.a -lrt   -lcrypt -lnsl
server.o(.text+0x4d1f): In function `pserver_authenticate_connection':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/server.c:6574: warning: Using 'initgroups' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
admin.o(.text+0x80f): In function `admin':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/admin.c:449: warning: Using 'getgrnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
commit.o(.text+0x7cb): In function `commit':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/commit.c:363: warning: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
filesubr.o(.text+0xee4): In function `get_homedir':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/filesubr.c:813: warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
../lib/libcvs.a(glob.o)(.text+0x111d): In function `rpl_glob':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/lib/glob.c:656: warning: Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.4/../../../libc.a(regex.o)(.rodata+0x0): multiple definition of `__re_error_msgid_idx'
../lib/libcvs.a(regex.o)(.rodata+0x0):/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/lib/regex_internal.c:166: first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.4/../../../libc.a(regex.o)(.rodata+0x60): multiple definition of `__re_error_msgid'
../lib/libcvs.a(regex.o)(.rodata+0x60):/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/lib/regex_internal.c:172: first defined here
../lib/libcvs.a(canon-host.o)(.text+0x2b): In function `canon_host_r':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/lib/canon-host.c:71: warning: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
server.o(.text+0x4bee): In function `pserver_authenticate_connection':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/server.c:6944: warning: Using 'getspnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
client.o(.text+0x4ff9): In function `init_sockaddr':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/client.c:5166: warning: Using 'gethostbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
client.o(.text+0x3b72): In function `get_port_number':
/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src/client.c:3370: warning: Using 'getservbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: * [cvs] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13/src'
make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs-1.12.13'
make: * [all] Error 2