Question

I’m trying to install git on a shared server (with no root access or compiler) by building it statically on my own machine (running Arch Linux) with the same processor architecture (x86_64) as the server, as explained in this guide.

When I ran make, I always got these errors and a failure:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_globallookup':
(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `dlopen'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_globallookup':
(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_globallookup':
(.text+0x37): undefined reference to `dlclose'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_func':
(.text+0x364): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_func':
(.text+0x422): undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_var':
(.text+0x494): undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_bind_var':
(.text+0x552): undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_load':
(.text+0x5c2): undefined reference to `dlopen'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_load':
(.text+0x62d): undefined reference to `dlclose'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_load':
(.text+0x65a): undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_pathbyaddr':
(.text+0x6ef): undefined reference to `dladdr'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_pathbyaddr':
(.text+0x749): undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.2/../../../../lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function `dlfcn_unload':
(.text+0x7aa): undefined reference to `dlclose'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [git-imap-send] Error 1

Answer 1

I finally discovered a different guide, which advised running a slightly different .configure command. What ended up working for me was this guide, with the exception of running

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/myuser/git-static CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -static" NO_OPENSSL=1 NO_CURL=1

in step 2.