gnu linker and static/dynamic mix

I'm having a problem with the gnu linker. Here's my situation: I'm
compiling on linux, using g++ (egcs 2.91.66) and letting it call ld
(2.9.1). I need to link with all static libraries, with one
exception. That exception is a set of commercial libraries that I
only have dynamic versions of.


If I needed all static, I'd just add -static to the g++ flags, and
everything would be hunky-dory. But, when I do that, the linker
complains about not finding the static versions of the commercial
libraries. So, I thought "Why don't I use the -static flag to g++,
then surround my commercial libraries with -Wl,-Bdynamic and
-Wl,-Bstatic?" Well, I did that, and the linker finished much too
rapidly (the fully-dynamic linked executable is about 55 MB, the
partially dynamic one from the above method is only about 16 MB) and
it doesn't execute correctly. When I try to run it it acts as if it
isn't there (I get the (No such file or directory) error message).


So, I tried adding -Wl,-aarchive to the link flags, then doing the
-Bdynamic,-Bstatic pair around the dynamic libraries. It links too
fast, and then when I try to run it I get a segfault. Running ldd on
this executable shows that it's still linking dynamically to libm,
libc, and libstdc++2.8.0.


So, am I approaching this wrong? Is there some reason this isn't
working for me? Thanks for any advice you might have.
--
-bob
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