title: -static option for gcc?
body: <p>I'm wondering what the -static option on gcc does. I need this option when compiling a certain application, however when I do I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcc -static -O3 -o prog prog.c
  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What needs installation?</p>
  
  <p>GCC version:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[user@localhost dir]$ gcc -v
  Using built-in specs.
  COLLECT_GCC=gcc
  COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.6.1/lto-wrapper
  Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
  Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 4.6.1 20110908 (Red Hat 4.6.1-9) (GCC) 
  </code></pre>