Dockerfile

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ COPY go.sum /go-ethereum/
 RUN cd /go-ethereum && go mod download
 
 ADD . /go-ethereum
-RUN cd /go-ethereum && go run build/ci.go install ./cmd/geth
+RUN cd /go-ethereum && go run build/ci.go install -static ./cmd/geth
 
 # Pull Geth into a second stage deploy alpine container
 FROM alpine:latest

Dockerfile.alltools

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ COPY go.sum /go-ethereum/
 RUN cd /go-ethereum && go mod download
 
 ADD . /go-ethereum
-RUN cd /go-ethereum && go run build/ci.go install
+RUN cd /go-ethereum && go run build/ci.go install -static
 
 # Pull all binaries into a second stage deploy alpine container
 FROM alpine:latest

build/ci.go

@@ -200,9 +200,10 @@ func main() {
 
 func doInstall(cmdline []string) {
 	var (
-		dlgo = flag.Bool("dlgo", false, "Download Go and build with it")
+		dlgo       = flag.Bool("dlgo", false, "Download Go and build with it")
-		arch = flag.String("arch", "", "Architecture to cross build for")
+		arch       = flag.String("arch", "", "Architecture to cross build for")
-		cc   = flag.String("cc", "", "C compiler to cross build with")
+		cc         = flag.String("cc", "", "C compiler to cross build with")
+		staticlink = flag.Bool("static", false, "Create statically-linked executable")
 	)
 	flag.CommandLine.Parse(cmdline)
 
@@ -213,9 +214,12 @@ func doInstall(cmdline []string) {
 		tc.Root = build.DownloadGo(csdb, dlgoVersion)
 	}
 
+	// Disable CLI markdown doc generation in release builds.
+	buildTags := []string{"urfave_cli_no_docs"}
+
 	// Configure the build.
 	env := build.Env()
-	gobuild := tc.Go("build", buildFlags(env)...)
+	gobuild := tc.Go("build", buildFlags(env, *staticlink, buildTags)...)
 
 	// arm64 CI builders are memory-constrained and can't handle concurrent builds,
 	// better disable it. This check isn't the best, it should probably
@@ -224,9 +228,6 @@ func doInstall(cmdline []string) {
 		gobuild.Args = append(gobuild.Args, "-p", "1")
 	}
 
-	// Disable CLI markdown doc generation in release builds.
-	gobuild.Args = append(gobuild.Args, "-tags", "urfave_cli_no_docs")
-
 	// We use -trimpath to avoid leaking local paths into the built executables.
 	gobuild.Args = append(gobuild.Args, "-trimpath")
 
@@ -251,7 +252,7 @@ func doInstall(cmdline []string) {
 }
 
 // buildFlags returns the go tool flags for building.
-func buildFlags(env build.Environment) (flags []string) {
+func buildFlags(env build.Environment, staticLinking bool, buildTags []string) (flags []string) {
 	var ld []string
 	if env.Commit != "" {
 		ld = append(ld, "-X", "main.gitCommit="+env.Commit)
@@ -262,14 +263,24 @@ func buildFlags(env build.Environment) (flags []string) {
 	if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
 		ld = append(ld, "-s")
 	}
-	// Enforce the stacksize to 8M, which is the case on most platforms apart from
-	// alpine Linux.
 	if runtime.GOOS == "linux" {
-		ld = append(ld, "-extldflags", "-Wl,-z,stack-size=0x800000")
+		// Enforce the stacksize to 8M, which is the case on most platforms apart from
+		// alpine Linux.
+		extld := []string{"-Wl,-z,stack-size=0x800000"}
+		if staticLinking {
+			extld = append(extld, "-static")
+			// Under static linking, use of certain glibc features must be
+			// disabled to avoid shared library dependencies.
+			buildTags = append(buildTags, "osusergo", "netgo")
+		}
+		ld = append(ld, "-extldflags", "'"+strings.Join(extld, " ")+"'")
 	}
 	if len(ld) > 0 {
 		flags = append(flags, "-ldflags", strings.Join(ld, " "))
 	}
+	if len(buildTags) > 0 {
+		flags = append(flags, "-tags", strings.Join(buildTags, ","))
+	}
 	return flags
 }
 

internal/build/util.go

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"text/template"
 	"time"
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ var DryRunFlag = flag.Bool("n", false, "dry run, don't execute commands")
 // MustRun executes the given command and exits the host process for
 // any error.
 func MustRun(cmd *exec.Cmd) {
-	fmt.Println(">>>", strings.Join(cmd.Args, " "))
+	fmt.Println(">>>", printArgs(cmd.Args))
 	if !*DryRunFlag {
 		cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
 		cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
@@ -49,6 +50,20 @@ func MustRun(cmd *exec.Cmd) {
 	}
 }
 
+func printArgs(args []string) string {
+	var s strings.Builder
+	for i, arg := range args {
+		if i > 0 {
+			s.WriteByte(' ')
+		}
+		if strings.IndexByte(arg, ' ') >= 0 {
+			arg = strconv.QuoteToASCII(arg)
+		}
+		s.WriteString(arg)
+	}
+	return s.String()
+}
+
 func MustRunCommand(cmd string, args ...string) {
 	MustRun(exec.Command(cmd, args...))
 }
@@ -121,7 +136,7 @@ func UploadSFTP(identityFile, host, dir string, files []string) error {
 		sftp.Args = append(sftp.Args, "-i", identityFile)
 	}
 	sftp.Args = append(sftp.Args, host)
-	fmt.Println(">>>", strings.Join(sftp.Args, " "))
+	fmt.Println(">>>", printArgs(sftp.Args))
 	if *DryRunFlag {
 		return nil
 	}