Error while compiling krb 1.5

[Rainer Weikusat]

Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> writes:
>>>>>> "Shivakeshav" == Shivakeshav Santi <ss488 at cornell.edu> writes:
>
>     Shivakeshav> HI, I am trying to compile the latest krb 1.5 on
>     Shivakeshav> Solaris. I am trying to build static libraries, I
>     Shivakeshav> used the following command to configure : configure
>     Shivakeshav> --enable-static --disable-shared
>
>
> Kerberos 1.5 does not support building without shared libraries.

Is there a technical reason for this or is this just the way the build system
works?