On ESX 5.1, I couldn't eliminate the shared libraries from being used until I added the configure option '--disable-ipmishell' which was causing 'libreadline.so', etc. to be pulled in. Also, 'libc' was still a shared library, even after adding '-static-libgcc' to 'LDFLAGS'. So I had to build 'ipmitool' on a system that had a compatible 'libc.so.6', where executing /lib/libc.so.6 gave the same version as the ESX host.
It finally did build and work though. Thanks!
On ESX 5.1, I couldn't eliminate the shared libraries from being used until I added the configure option '--disable-ipmishell' which was causing 'libreadline.so', etc. to be pulled in. Also, 'libc' was still a shared library, even after adding '-static-libgcc' to 'LDFLAGS'. So I had to build 'ipmitool' on a system that had a compatible 'libc.so.6', where executing /lib/libc.so.6 gave the same version as the ESX host.
It finally did build and work though. Thanks!