I was able to duplicate Bug 1862: Building static GnuPG 2.1.2 fails due to
multiply defined symbols.

/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/libgpg-error-1.18/src/visibility.c:46:
multiple definition of `gpg_err_code_from_errno'
t-support.o:/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/gnupg-2.1.2/common/t-support.c:137:
first defined here
/home/jwalton/gpg-analyze/lib/libgpg-error.a(libgpg_error_la-visibility.o): In
function `gpg_err_code_from_syserror':
/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/libgpg-error-1.18/src/visibility.c:58:
multiple definition of `gpg_err_code_from_syserror'
t-support.o:/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/gnupg-2.1.2/common/t-support.c:151:
first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: * [t-stringhelp] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/gnupg-2.1.2/common'
make[2]: * [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/gnupg-2.1.2/common'
make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jwalton/Desktop/gcrypt-2.0-analyze/gnupg-2.1.2'
make: * [all] Error 2

LIBRARY=gnupg
VERSION=2.1.2
FILE="$LIBRARY-$VERSION"

export PREFIX=/usr/local

cd "$FILE"
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
--with-libgpg-error-prefix="$PREFIX" --with-libassuan-prefix="$PREFIX"
--with-ksba-prefix="$PREFIX" --with-npth-prefix="$PREFIX"
--with-libgcrypt-prefix="$PREFIX" --prefix="$PREFIX"

make

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