ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file

["Josh Keller" <jkeller at keytechinc dot com>]

I'm trying to compile a .elf file with the following command line:
 
Linking: main.elf
arm-elf-gcc  Cstartup.o   main.o Cstartup_SAM7.o irq.o pio.o
interrupt_pit.o interrupt_Usart.o
 --output main.elf -nostartfiles -Wl,-Map=main.map,--cref
--no-whole-archive --gc-sections -Iucos_ii
 -Lucos_ii -lucos_ii -TAT91SAM7S64-ROM.ld
 
And I get an executable that runs, however, my binary is much larger
than it is supposed to be because the linker is including all the .o
files in my archive (.a).

I can't figure out what to do.  I have tried the --gc-sections option
and the --no-whole-archive option but I still get a really large
executable.  I created my archive from .o files using 
arm-elf-ar -rcv libucos_ii.a $(OBJS).  

I can't seem to figure out a good solution.  Any ideas?  I'd rather not
create an archive file for each .o file (which sort of defeats the
purpose of having a .a file)  Thanks for the help!
 
I'm using GNU ld version 2.14 20030612

Here is a listing of the files in my archive:

$ arm-elf-size libucos_ii.a
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4156       0       0    4156    103c os_core.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
    208       0       0     208      d0 os_cpu_c.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
      0       0       0       0       0 os_flag.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   1168       0       0    1168     490 os_mem.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   2472       0       0    2472     9a8 os_q.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   3360       0       0    3360     d20 os_task.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
    368      40       0     408     198 os_cpu_a.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
      2       0       0       2       2 os_dbg_r.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   1564       0       0    1564     61c os_mbox.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   2256       0       0    2256     8d0 os_mutex.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
   1252       0       0    1252     4e4 os_sem.o (ex libucos_ii.a)
    764       0       0     764     2fc os_time.o (ex libucos_ii.a)

-Josh