Just thought I would mention for the Arch users here and who might find this page like I did - I submitted an AUR package that successfully builds and installs for Arch Linux (with help from taaaki's static bins). Look for it in the comments (I have the same username there) because as of now the maintainer has not updated it. Hope this helps someone. PS - Users of other distributions can download the package and use the links in the PKGBUILD file to download the static bins as well.