### 2.7 Influencing the linking step

These options come into play when the compiler links object files into an executable output file. They are meaningless if the compiler is not doing a link step.

`-static-libgfortran`
  On systems that provide `libgfortran` as a shared and a static library, this option forces the use of the static version. If no shared version of `libgfortran` was built when the compiler was configured, this option has no effect.