[gentoo-user] Building a truly static firefox

[felix@crowfix.com]

What a messed up project I have.  I need to run firefox3 at work on a
non-gentoo distro, yet it won't build, and the binary won't print,
because of an out of date gtk lib (gtk+-unix-print-2.0.pc) which I
can't update for reasons beyond my control.  However, it builds and
runs and prints on my home gentoo box, so I had the brilliant idea of
building a static firefox3 there and running it at work.

The destructions on how to build a static firefox don't work, or maybe
I just have old fashioned on what a static executable should look
like.  I would have expected ldd to show just one monolithic command.
Instead it shows 57 lines of output, with a complaint that libnss.so
is not version NSS_3.12.  This is hard masked in portage.  Could that
prevent making a proper static executable?  Or has the definition of a
static executable changed to allow external libraries?

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