How to statically link Python with ncurses and readline?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

arve.knudsen at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Ah, you didn't *have* static versions of readline and ncurses...
So how should it possibly have linked those libraries statically???

Regards,
Martin