Two questions (Linking Libraries and Creating Them)

1) Anyone know of a way to statically link only certain libraries? Reason this came up is because I am using the CGIC library and it requires use of a shared library. Since my web host does not have them I have to use the -static parameter with gcc. This in turns brings in all the other libraries which brings the file size to about 450k.

2) How do you create a library from multiple object files in Linux?

for number 1:
I would guess
gcc -o test -static -lsomelib -shared -lsomeotherlib
for number 2:
gcc -c -fPIC test1.c
gcc -c -fPIC test2.c
gcc -shared -fPIC -o libtest.so test1.o test2.o

static library from several object files is simply this:

ar rc libLibName.a file1.o file2.o file3.o

Thanks FYB