compiling STAR staticaly under Linux

I would like to be able to use STAR in a rescue environment under Linux 
with Redhat FC4.
The FC4 Redhat rescue environment doesn't seem to include STAR, although 
the main install offers an old version of STAR.
(Some former Redhat rescue environnement did even include a broken 
CPIO.... that wasn't able to execute with the dynamic libs!)
In order to avoid problems, I would like to compile a STATIC version of 
STAR.
I have got static versions of grub, cpio, tar, bzip2, etc... in order to 
avoid dynamicaly linked lib problems when libs and distrib changes.
So far, I have been using CPIO for backup and RESTAURE. A backup is 
worth nothing if it can not be restaured.
My opinion is that critical Unix commands should be linked "static" 
because if you have got a lib problem then you can not restaure your
backups from the rescue DVD. Saving a few megabytes on disk is not very 
financialy usefull considering that a small disk is now a 80GByte disk.

I have tried to compile STAR staticaly. But I get mixed up in the 
compile environnement. Is there a clean way to do this?
Have I missed something in the manual?


FV.