[openib-general] does the libibverbs support static linkage?

[dotanb at dev.mellanox.co.il]

Hi Roland.

Here are the props of my host/driver:
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Host Architecture : x86_64
Linux Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) VERSION = 10
Kernel Version    : 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
GCC Version       : gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)
Memory size       : 4047700 kB
Driver Version    : gen2_devel-20070101-1730
HCA ID(s)         : mthca0
HCA model(s)      : 23108
FW version(s)     : 3.5.000
Board(s)          : MT_0030000001
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when tried to use static linking with our tests (i tried several tests) 
using the following change in the Makefile:

OFED_PATH = /usr/local/
LDFLAGS += --static -Wl,--whole-archive -libverbs
${OFED_PATH}/lib64/infiniband/mthca.a
LDFLAGS += -Wl,--no-whole-archive

I got the following linkage warning:
/usr/local/lib64/libibverbs.a(src_libibverbs_la-init.o): In function 
`load_driver':
src/init.c:66: warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications 
requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for 
linking

When i tried to run the executable i got segmentation fault in:
load_driver (so_path=0x5e65f0 "/usr/local//lib64/infiniband/mthca.so")  at
src/init.c:61 (func: load_driver)

It seems that the code that causes the seg fault is the following code line:
dlhandle = dlopen(so_path, RTLD_NOW);

When i executed ldd on the executable i got the following message:
        not a dynamic executable

Do you know why does the debugger show that
"/usr/local//lib64/infiniband/mthca.so" was used and not
"/usr/local//lib64/infiniband/mthca.a"?

Can you please check this issue?


thanks
Dotan