Issue with static linking?

[Micheal Smith]

Hey.  I'm not sure if this is more of a libtool issue, or an automake 
issue.  I have some code that relies on libresolv to do mx lookups.  
This code uses functions within that library that are not exported 
unless compiled with the -static flag.  The issue is that I also require 
libraries such as pam.  That hiccup when compiled under that flag.  
Anyway, my solution was to compile my mxresolver as a libtool library 
compiled with the -static flag and then include it into my program via 
LDADD.    My Makefile.am follows:

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmxresolv.la
libmxresolv_la_SOURCES = mxresolver.c
libmxresolv_la_LDFLAGS = -static
include_HEADERS = mxresolver.h

bin_PROGRAMS = program

program_CPPFLAGS = \
                  -DSYSCONFDIR="\"$(sysconfdir)\""

program_SOURCES = main-inc.h main.c auth.c crypto.c errors.c \
                                 htable.c interface.c llist.c logging.c \
                                 smtplib.c socklib.c
dmailer_LDADD = libmxresolv.la


This has not done what I expected however.  When I try to compile this I 
still get the undefined reference errors shown below.

gcc -g -O2 -o program main.o auth.o crypto.o errors.o htable.o 
interface.o llist.o logging.o smtplib.o socklib.o  ./.libs/libmxresolv.a 
-lssl -lpthread -lpam 
./.libs/libmxresolv.a(mxresolver.o): In function `mx_lookup':
undefined reference to `__ns_initparse'
undefined reference to `__ns_parserr'
undefined reference to `__ns_name_uncompress'


Any insights as to a possible solution would be greatly appreciated.