[Distutils] building static extension modules?

[Skip Montanaro]

Is there a way to build extension modules for static linkage and have them
get incorporated into libpython2.2.a using distutils?  I tried

    python setup.py --help
    python setup.py --help-commands
    python setup.py build --help
    python setup.py build_ext --help

and also gazed briefly at the docs, but couldn't find anything.

Thx,

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Skip Montanaro (skip@pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)