How can a package link glib statically?

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17415

pkgs/development/libraries/gtk-libs/2.16/glib/default.nix

@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [pkgconfig gettext perl];
 
+  # TODO: The setup script adds --disable-static to ./configure by
+  # default. The nbd-server, however, would like to link this library
+  # statically (so that nbd-server can itself be a static binary). I
+  # have no clue how to solve it properly, but a solution that would
+  # work is this one:
+  #
+  # configureFlags = "--enable-static";
+  #
+  # There has to be a better way?
+
   meta = {
     description = "GLib, a C library of programming buildings blocks";