any reason for a linked statically gdalinfo?

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Frank,

in the apps/GNUmakefile i find:

gdalinfo$(EXE): gdalinfo.o $(DEP_LIBS)
$(CXX) $(LNK_FLAGS) gdalinfo.o $(XTRAOBJ) $(GDAL_LIBS) $(LIBS) \
-o gdalinfo$(EXE)

gdal_translate$(EXE): gdal_translate.o $(DEP_LIBS)
$(CXX) $(LNK_FLAGS) gdal_translate.o $(XTRAOBJ) \
$(CONFIG_LIBS) -o gdal_translate$(EXE)

is there any special reason for gdalinfo to be always linked
statically? all other apps seem to be linked dinamically when
possible.

i build libgdal.1.1.so as a shared library and dinamic link saves
some disk space with no apparent (to me:)) loss:
gdalinfo.static is 1139844 bytes
gdalinfo.dinamic is 15896 bytes

cheers,
alessandro