Static and Shared object file linking

No time for any details, but something for me to followup and play around with:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344830/possible-to-build-a-shared-library-with-static-link-used-library

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386579/pack-shared-libraries-into-the-elf

http://statifier.sourceforge.net/

http://www.magicermine.com/products.html#feature_comparison