How to statically link Python with ncurses and readline?

[arve.knudsen at gmail.com]

Well, I implied that _curses.so and readline.so disappeared as one
would expect, dependencies on libncurses.so and libreadline.so instead
showing up in Python itself. It's very strange that this happens with
ncurses and readline, when both db and Tcl/Tk got linked in with no
fuss. Anyway, I built static-only (.a) versions of readline and
ncurses, which did the trick.

Arve