* Message by -Laurent Bercot- from Mon 2011-02-07:
> > This is with Glibc 2.13. Somewhat older Glibc versions work 
> > alright, for instance 2.11.2. As a workaround (or fix), I changed 
> > src/conf-ld to call "gcc" and not "gcc -s".
> 
>  Static linking is broken in recent glibcs.

Just found out that static linking works when using latest 
binutils (2.21), at least for runit.