using static library

[M.W.Chang]

Is he asking too much from gcc?

-- cross-posted from another newsroup ---

I tried to use dlopen() in a static compiled program, but failed.
(i want to compile it staticly for portability reason)
So I tried to compile the libc in in a manual way:

$ gcc main.c
$ cat main.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main () {
  printf("okay\n");
}
$ gcc main.c
$ ./a.out
okay
$ ldd a.out
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40019000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
$ gcc -nostdlib main.c /usr/lib/libc.a
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/libgcc.a
/usr/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to
08048080
$ ./a.out
okay
Segmentation fault          <---- Why segfault here?
$ ldd a.out
         not a dynamic executable