The necessary packages have been installed, static compilation is now possible on 
maia.

I find it much easier to compile on the grid in my workflow. Currently, the 
compilation is done on the master.

Who would we need to contact for the missing packages and what has to be 
installed?

I'm not a big fan of making the build scripts more complicated. If we need to
build on maia, installing the necessary libraries there seems the better approach.

Why/in which situations do we compile on maia in the first place? Do we compile
on the master or on the compute nodes? I the past I've tried to avoid compiling
on grids since they tend to have an extremely slow upgrade cycle.

Should we 
* try to automatically disable static linking if we detect that the underlying platform doesn't support 
it or
* enable static linking on maia?