>>I have seen a -Bdynamic options for ld, the -shared option for gcc.
>>
>Do you know if gcc can be instructed to use shared/static libs on a
>file-by-file basis? Atleast for my version of gcc, it's an all or
>nothing deal, but ld seems to have this capability.

I did it once by using a whole mess of -Xlinker arguments and passing the
right magic to ld.

--Ken