linking a .so with libgcj.a ?

Wed Dec 15 07:01:00 GMT 2004

On Linux (gentoo 2.6.9), using gcj 3.4.3, built from sources, I'm trying to 
create a .so (a python extension) that is statically linked with libgcj.a 
instead of dynamically with libgcj.so.5.
I can link it with libgcj.so without a problem, it works fine.
If I link it with libgcj.a, it links, creates a .so that crashes with 
a segfault as soon as it is loaded into the process.
On windows, with Mingw 3.4.2, this works (and is the default, there apparently 
isn't even a libgcj.dll anyway).
Linking my .so statically with libgcj.a would reduce the size of the libs I 
have to ship by a large amount until libgcj.so.5 is installed, standard, on 
Linux distributions. My .so dynamically linked is 2Mb, statically linked 
15Mb, libgcj.so.5.0.0 is 41Mb.
Can I do that ? How ?
Thanks !
Andi..