How to force gcc to build always statically linked binaries?

[John Love-Jensen]

Hi Ioannis,

Try this (in shorthand):

mkdir ~/MySpoofedGCC

PATH=~/MySpoofedGCC:$PATH

vi ~/MySpoofedGCC/gcc
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#!/bin/bash

/bin/gcc -static "$@"
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Does that make sense?

I've used that successfully to put in a few flags I wanted everywhere and
always, such as -D_GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING.  But I used a BIG HAMMER.
I changed gcc to gcc-real, and made my script where gcc was located.  That
works on a personal machine, but would make people upset if it was a shared
gcc for a lot of people.

--Eljay