--disable-shared support

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/26/2018 11:07 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
>> --disable-shared has apparently been broken for a long, long time. Should we
>> remove any vestiges of support for it?
> 
> I think we should fix this problem (bug 20845), to facilitate
> --disable-shared being used as a way to run the full testsuite for static
> linking.

Is this the only reason for fixing it?

I wonder if we should link and run all tests statically which can run 
statically linked, rather than relying on tests opting in explicitly 
(which some do).

Thanks,
Florian