Compiling openssh statically?

[Josh Wyatt]

Greetings,

[non-list member, here]

I'm wondering if it's possible to compile openssh-4.2p1 (portable) statically.
The platform is Linux 2.4 x86, openssl-0.9.7i, zlib-1.2.3, gcc-3.3.5.

Thanks,
Josh