Still having trouble linking to a static library

[Sean McMahon]

After some review of MakeMaker, Xs, and Inline, I figured out something that I 
thought would be able to link to a static library we have.  Yet even after 
specifying -static as a flag to gcc, -Bstatic as a flag to my linker, and using 
linktype=static as an argument to the initial make command, I.E. perl 
linktype=static Makefile.PL, my program still has trouble because it is trying 
to refference the .so file and not the .a file.  I want my program to refer to 
mylib.a and not mylib.so.  There happens to be both a static version and dynamic 
version of this library, but due to some horrible dependency issues, it's easier 
to use the static libraries, in theory.  Your help is appreciated.
Sean