static gcc from toolchain: howto?

I've been trying for two days now to compile a static gcc (and possibly other tools too) but failed. When I try and set LDFLAGS or LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET to -static, I get lots of multiple to _nl_* stuff, hence only i18n stuff... And I cannot seem to get out of it, no matter how I try. There's no static-* target either.

What is the solution? Or is there a static toolchain binary tree to be d/led somewhere?