How do I link multiple static libraries into one shared library?

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I have two Gradle projects each producing a native static library. I need to link them into one big shared object. The project that does the linking is not expected to have any source files of its own.

I have tried the following:

apply plugin: 'c'
model {
 components {
  CombinedLibrary(NativeLibrarySpec) {
   sources {
    c {
     lib project: ':one', library: 'one', linkage: 'static'
     lib project: ':two', library: 'two', linkage: 'static'
    }
   }
  }
 }
}

This causes Gradle to diligently build libraries one and two, but then it just stops. I can make gcc link those properly, if I add these parameters:

-Wl,-whole-archive -lone -ltwo -Wl,-no-whole-archive

I could add all of those parameters manually using linker.args, but Gradle does not go into linking stage at all. It simply stops after building the dependent libraries.