No Makefile for Demo/embed/missing libpython

[Stefan]

Hello,
I've embedded Python in bigger application on a Debian system.
Now I try to compile this application on Suse and find that the shared
library libpython.so is not available. So I want to use the archive
libpython.a and cannot figure out how to add this to my configure.in.

I thought I could learn it from the Demos supplied with Python, but
on Suse the Demo/embed directory has no Makefile; the original 
source-distribution only contains a Makefile for RH which doesn't 
work here.

Any suggestions would be helpful.
Stefan