Force static linking with Intel libirng

[DataScientist]

I have been spending hours trying to understand why Intel `ifort` cannot link `libirng` statically with output shared libraries. Still, I have no clue. I have tried `-static-intel` with and without the other more generic flag `-static` but it has no effects. Using `ldd`, I can still see a dependency on `libirng.so`.

I would appreciate any suggestion as to where to look for a solution next to get this resolved. I am using Intel OneAPI 2021.11.1

[Ron_Green]

that is unusual.  that's the random number generator library.  Are you linking in any 3rd party libraries?  Maybe they have a dynamic link to libirng.so?  

Try compiler option -# when you build the final executable and check all the -l arguments going into the linker.