For no good reason I'd say, it also is a bit pointless on glibc because of this: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do': (.text+0x13e2): warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do': (.text+0x13d5): warning: Using 'setpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do': (.text+0x13ea): warning: Using 'endpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
*** Bug 273317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed, thanks.