static linking

[riboaz xs4all nl]

hi,

this question was posed during the last week and i was very curious as to
the answer, but nothing came across this particular mailing list, so i'm a
gonna ask again:

how does one link a gtk+ application (v2.6.2) as a static executable?

the command
    pkg-config --libs
always returns
    -Wl,--export-dynamic

presumably this dynamic link specifier disables static linking (adding
-static in the makefile doesn't help).

when modifying my makefile by hand and providing the pkg-config libraries
explicitly, (but *without* the -dynamic specifier and *with* the -static
specifier), the linker complains that the gtk library cannot be found.

what i conclude is that the installation of gtk+ does not, by default,
create and/or install static libraries.

is, thus, a requirement of gtk+ that all applications must run on a
machine where gtk+ is installed, or is there another way to compile and
install gtk+ so that static libraries are also included, allowing
statically linked gtk+ apps?

cheers,

richard boaz