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Malcolm Kay wrote:

> Maybe it is OK but to me the -static option at the end of the command looks 
> strange. And I know the documentation says that mostly the command line order 
> doesn't matter; but try it near the beginning.

Several of us tried and failed to get it to link statically in various 
ways, so we gave up, dropped -static, and went dynamic instead. It even 
required fewer libraries that way. My thanks to Matt Emmerton for the 
final solution that worked. :)

	-ste