Are static-only builds supposed to work?

[Florian Weimer]

I configured with --disable-shared, and got this error:

gawk -f ../scripts/gen-as-const.awk 
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/ucontext_i.sym \
| gcc -S -o /home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/ucontext_i.hT3 -std=gnu11 
-fgnu89-inline  -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wundef -Wwrite-strings 
-fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -g -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wold-style-definition     -ftls-model=initial-exec      -I../include 
-I/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/csu 
-I/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build 
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64 
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86 
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/nptl 
-I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux 
-I../sysdeps/nptl  -I../sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/gnu 
-I../sysdeps/unix/inet  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv  -I../sysdeps/unix/x86_64 
  -I../sysdeps/unix  -I../sysdeps/posix  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/64 
-I../sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/fpu 
-I../sysdeps/x86/fpu/include -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu 
-I../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/x86_64  -I../sysdeps/x86 
-I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64 
-I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 
-I../sysdeps/wordsize-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754  -I../sysdeps/generic 
-I.. -I../libio -I.   -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include 
/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=libc 
-include ../include/libc-symbols.h       -x c - \
         -MD -MP -MF /home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/ucontext_i.h.dT 
-MT '/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/ucontext_i.h.d 
/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/ucontext_i.h'
cc1: fatal error: /home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/libc-modules.h: No 
such file or directory

Are static-only builds supposed to work?  Do we have to support them in 
our makefiles going forward?

Thanks,
Florian