On 8/31/2015 6:29 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote:
> On Monday 2015-08-31 10:00:32 Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am glad that it is now building for you.  Yes, if you have binaries
>> build by Simone, you should wait for him to build new versions -- that
>> will ensure a smooth upgrade.
>>
>> By the way, I mentioned to someone on this list that there would soon be
>> binaries distributed by the Bacula project.  Unfortunately the guy that
>> was going to do it is busy, so i will take over that project when I am
>> back from vacation in October.  I don' t know how long it will take,
>> but that will be my number 1 priority (as well as getting a 7.2.1 out
>> with some minor corrections).
> Hi
>
> Please consider providing statically compiled bacula-fd and other useful
> tools such as bls, bextract, and possibly few others (with and without
> openssl support).
>
> On Centos 6.x it is impossible to build statically compiled bacula-fd
> without building and installing from source a number of libraries.

Yes. It is getting increasingly difficult to get all of the static 
libraries installed. I don't think it is solely a Centos/RHEL issue.

> For that purpose I had to install Debian and statically compile bacula-fd
> and the accompanied tools which is very inconvenient, especially
> for people who get into a trouble and then discover that its almost
> impossible to find statically compiled recent version of bacula tools.
>

I used the opposite approach, which I believe is easier. Forget the 
static builds and create a live CD (or USB stick or virtual machine) 
that includes the dynamic libraries and dynamic versions of Bacula tools.



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