Turning dynamic into static?

[lrr () cert org (Lawrence R. Rogers)]

Speaking of shared object libraries and dynamic linking, is it possible to
turned a dynamically linked program into a static one with ld, ld.so, whatever?

If possible, Sun could distributed /usr/bin/login as a dynamically linked program and those who wish could make it 
static.

Consider the sysadmin who needs a set of known tools that they can carry around on a floppy, tools like ps, netstat, 
ifconfig, etc.  Those tools would be imune to various types of corruption of a system, changes to shared object 
libraries for example.  Sure, one could fetch GNU tools and build them statically but the vendor's tools may be 
preferrable.

Thanks for your thoughts.
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                                        Larry Rogers
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                                        Trustworthy Systems
                                        Software Engineering Institute
                                        Carnegie-Mellon University
                                        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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