diff --git a/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog b/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
index 2f10dd8..98d5ff3 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
+++ b/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
       Ogg Vorbis support thanks to aNa|0Gue <analogue@glop.org>
     o added support for SUN Solaris
     o removed long command line options (as these are extensions to UNIX)
+    o removed configure option to specify location of lame library
+    o removed configure option to compile static executable
 
 09-09-2001: DarkIce 0.5 released
 
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/INSTALL b/darkice/trunk/INSTALL
index 2c1b456..c905f9b 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/INSTALL
+++ b/darkice/trunk/INSTALL
@@ -20,15 +20,7 @@ DarkIce tarball. Go to the directory you extracted it, and try:
 
 ./configure --help
 
-This will give you all the compile configuration options. Options of
-particlar interest are:
-
-  --enable-static         link everything into the executable statically [no]
-
-Use --enable-static to build a statically linked executable. This is good
-if you plan to deploy DarkIce on a system where either the Lame shared
-object is not installed or its location is unknown. In general it is a
-better idea to link dynamically (not using this option).
+This will give you all the compile configuration options.
 
 On Solaris systems, for some reason the configure script does not
 find the include file lame/lame.h if it uses the SUN Workshop C compiler
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/configure.in b/darkice/trunk/configure.in
index 40b15e6..97956a6 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/configure.in
+++ b/darkice/trunk/configure.in
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(vorbis/vorbisenc.h)
 AC_TYPE_PID_T()
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T()
 
-AC_SUBST(LINK_STATIC)
-
 AC_CHECK_LIB( socket, socket)
 AC_CHECK_LIB( nsl, gethostbyname)
 AC_CHECK_LIB( rt, sched_getscheduler)
@@ -31,17 +29,5 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB( vorbis, vorbis_info_init)
 AC_CHECK_LIB( vorbisenc, vorbis_encode_init)
 AC_CHECK_LIB( mp3lame, lame_init)
 
-AC_ARG_ENABLE( static,
-[  --enable-static         link everything into the executable statically [no]],
-  CONFIG_LINK_STATIC="${enableval}", CONFIG_LINK_STATIC="")
-  if test "${CONFIG_LINK_STATIC}" != "yes" ; then
-    LINK_STATIC=""
-    AC_MSG_RESULT( "creating dinamically linked executable")
-  else
-    LINK_STATIC="--static"
-    AC_MSG_RESULT( "creating statically linked executable")
-  fi
-
-
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile)
 
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/rpm/darkice.spec b/darkice/trunk/rpm/darkice.spec
index 36fc63c..e8153f7 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/rpm/darkice.spec
+++ b/darkice/trunk/rpm/darkice.spec
@@ -54,20 +54,6 @@ the Ogg Vorbis stream to one or more IceCast2 servers.
 
 
 
-# =========================================================== static sub-package
-%package static
-Summary: %{summary} static version
-Group: Applications/Multimedia
-
-%description static
-DarkIce is an IceCast, IceCast2 and ShoutCast live audio streamer. It
-takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it into mp3 and/or Ogg Vorbis,
-and sends the mp3 stream to one or more IceCast and/or ShoutCast servers,
-the Ogg Vorbis stream to one or more IceCast2 servers.
-
-This is the statically linked version.
-
-
 # =================================================================== prep stage
 %prep
 %setup
@@ -75,17 +61,6 @@ This is the statically linked version.
 
 # ================================================================== build stage
 %build
-# first build the static executable
-%configure --enable-static
-make all
-
-mv src/darkice src/darkice.static
-
-# there is no need to clean, as the object files are the same for the static
-# and dynamic builds
-#make distclean
-
-# secondly build the dynamic executable
 %configure
 make all
 
@@ -94,9 +69,6 @@ make all
 %install
 %makeinstall
 
-# copy the static executable as well
-cp src/darkice.static $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}
-
 
 # ========================================================== pre-install scripts
 %pre
@@ -122,19 +94,12 @@ make clean
 %{_mandir}/man5/darkice.cfg.5*
 
 
-# ===================================================== static sub-package files
-%files static
-%defattr (-, root, root)
-%doc COPYING ChangeLog README TODO
-%config %{_sysconfdir}/darkice.cfg
-%{_bindir}/darkice.static
-%{_mandir}/man1/darkice.1*
-%{_mandir}/man5/darkice.cfg.5*
-
-
 # =================================================================== change log
 #
 #   $Log$
+#   Revision 1.7  2001/09/18 18:00:02  darkeye
+#   removed --enable-static configure option
+#
 #   Revision 1.6  2001/09/18 17:35:15  darkeye
 #   for version 0.6
 #
diff --git a/darkice/trunk/src/Makefile.am b/darkice/trunk/src/Makefile.am
index bcdfbc5..490777a 100644
--- a/darkice/trunk/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/darkice/trunk/src/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 bin_PROGRAMS = darkice
 CXXFLAGS = -O2 -Wall
-LDADD = @LINK_STATIC@
 
 darkice_SOURCES =   AudioEncoder.h\
                     AudioSource.h\