how to link python against static sys libs?

[Martin v. Löwis]

"David McNab" <david at nospam-freenet.org.nz> writes:

> I'm having a bit of a nightmare trying to build python to link the sys
> libs (eg glibc) statically.

I haven't check recently, but I think static libraries are not really
supported on Linux anymore. The C libraries relies on dynamic loading
for certain functions (such has netdb), and there is no way to build a
statically-linked executable that uses these functions.

Regards,
Martin