Problem building static version for root use under Solaris

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: sparc
OS: solaris2.6
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='sparc' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='solaris2.6' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='sparc-sun-solaris2.6' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='sun' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib 
-I/opt/GNU/include -O2
uname output: SunOS salome 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4m sparc 
SUNW,SPARCstation-20
Machine Type: sparc-sun-solaris2.6

Bash Version: 2.05
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
I'm trying to build a version of Bash that is statically linked (but has
its full feature set included) for use by "root".

I therefore configured using "--enable-static-link".

However the build process fails with the following error message:

gcc -L./builtins -L./lib/readline -L./lib/readline -L./lib/glob -L./lib/tilde 
-L./lib/malloc -L./lib/sh -s -static -static   -O2 -o bash shell.o eval.o 
y.tab.o general.o make_cmd.o print_cmd.o  dispose_cmd.o execute_cmd.o 
variables.o copy_cmd.o error.o expr.o flags.o jobs.o subst.o hashcmd.o 
hashlib.o mailcheck.o trap.o input.o unwind_prot.o pathexp.o sig.o test.o 
version.o alias.o array.o braces.o bracecomp.o bashhist.o bashline.o siglist.o 
list.o stringlib.o locale.o findcmd.o redir.o pcomplete.o pcomplib.o syntax.o 
xmalloc.o -lbuiltins -lsh -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap -lglob -ltilde 
-lmalloc  -lsocket -lnsl 
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
dlclose                             /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlsym                               /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlopen                              /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlerror                             /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to bash

Obviously the problem is that "-lnsl" invokes functions defined in
"-ldl", but the latter cannot be linked statically against, according
to the Solaris 2.6 man page.


Repeat-By:
        env MAKE="make -j2" CC=gcc LDFLAGS='-s' CFLAGS='-O2' CCFLAGS='-O2' \
                ./configure --prefix=/opt/GNU --enable-static-link
        make

Fix:
        No fix known (at least not by me ;-)

Thanks, guys!!