ide-smart can be linked statically but USE=static does not work. USE=static emerge ide-smart ... ldd /usr/bin/ide-smart linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40034000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: ldd ide-smart not a dynamic executable Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.6-win4lin) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-win4lin i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl debug dga directfb doc dv dvb dvd emacs encode esd ethereal evo flash foomaticdb gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib innodb java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww lids lirc mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl static svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
There is no maintainer for this package, and the last change was made Dec 2002 (which was to mark stable on sparc). I don't think this will be fixed anytime soon - it's not like ide-smart ever claimed to support the "static" use flag: andrew-desktop / # grep IUSE /usr/portage/app-admin/ide-smart/* /usr/portage/app-admin/ide-smart/ide-smart-1.4.ebuild:IUSE="" Furthermore, the binary is only linked against the standard c library! There is little, if any, benefit in statically linking it. This should probably be closed "WONTFIX". At the very least, the severity should be changed from "normal" to "enhancement" (since the bug is really a request for additional functionality - namely, support for the "static" use flag).
I'm closing this as WONTFIX for the reasons Andrew has mentioned in comment #1: the application only requires the C library and hence there would be little gained advantage by linking it statically.
Just to clear up why it is interesting for me to have ide-smart statically linked: I often use Gentoo to create executables for people using other distributions. Therefore I cannot assume they have the same version of the C-library, but a statically linked binary will work even if they C-library is very old.
