Well I am back at trying to get a static client

it pretty much ends the compile with some version of
...failed Archive ./out/linux/optimize/libs/libplaneshift_database_staticplugins-0.0.a ...
...skipped client_static for lack of planeshift_database_staticplugins...
...failed updating 1 target(s)...

looking back through the compiler output I find:
./out/linux/optimize/src/plugins/common/bgloader/static/bgloader_loader_objects.o: No such file or directory
./out/linux/optimize/src/plugins/common/bgloader/static/bgloader_loader_objects.o

Since regular compiles work fine I assume there is a problem somewhere in the jam files but I have no clue how to find/fix it.

My most recent attemp, the static build actually completed with the new instructions on
https://planeshift.svn.sf.net/svnroot/planeshift/trunk/docs/compiling.html
for compiling static
Still client wouldnt run, I set up bash as suggested here and copied the libs it wanted from crystalspace then it

SCF_NOTIFY: scanning plugin directory: /compile/planeshift (context ‘{none}’; recursive no)
SCF_NOTIFY: scanning plugin directory: /compile/planeshift/lib (context ‘{none}’; recursive no)
NOTIFY: loading plugin instance for crystalspace.kernel.vfs
WARNING: could not load plugin ‘crystalspace.kernel.vfs’
 * This likely means that the plugins could not be found.
 If you're a user: Check the working directory the application starts from -
  usually, it is the same as the directory with the executable.
  If in doubt, contact the vendor.
 If you're a developer: Check if the CRYSTAL environment var points to the
  correct location - usually the directory CS was built in.
  You can also use the ‘--verbose’ command line switch to troubleshoot
  where CS looks for plugins.
ERROR: csInitializer::SetupConfigManager failed!
Is your CRYSTAL environment variable set?

jam client_static got me that far but first I had to compile crystalspace with jam staticplugins

there is also a jam staticplugins for planeshift but that fails about the same place the client does. I thought it might be lack of mysql statci libraries but as far as I can tell they are there in the normal path /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.a

I am out of ideas on this, what am I missing?
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./out/linux/optimize/src/plugins/database/mysql/static/dbmysql_dal.o ./out/linux/optimize/src/plugins/database/_dbmysql_static_reg.o

...failed Archive ./out/linux/optimize/libs/libplaneshift_database_staticplugins-0.5.a ...
...skipped psclient_static for lack of planeshift_database_staticplugins...
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I thought it was mysql but you can see with the last couple of lines of the compile has done that (or at least some of it).
Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks for the help both here and on irc I am making progress. Didn't mean to complain, I know documentation is way down on the list. I am sumbling my way thru, and its is on my list to go back and contribute to the documentation when I am sure I have enough figured out for it to be useful. (haha maybe a diary of my adventures)

Yes I used that some, but its for crystalspace and planeshift seems to have done something more.