Hi Brice,

On Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:11:28 +0000
Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> wrote:
> My issue building a static 'nfs-utils' is that it can't find
> 'getrpcbynumber{,_r}' “configure: error: Neither getrpcbynumber_r nor
> getrpcbynumber are available”. This function should be provided by the 
> libc
> or by libtirpc if it's not that first one. The problem is that 
> 'libtirpc'
> don't build it's own 'getrpcbynumber' because it find one in libc but
> nfs-utils can't find it...

Since glibc:static doesn't seem to contain it
(/gnu/store/rj4il3jjqg23cm3a0h17yzq3b5wa8llm-glibc-2.31-static/lib$
 objdump -t *.a |grep -i getrpcby returns nothing), we could make our
own variant of libtirpc that does enable their version.

> You can find the part of my work which is committed in the
> 'wip-network-boot' at https://git.sr.ht/~bricewge/guix.

Thanks!

I've checked it out, looks good so far!