Darkmere usr # qpkg -v -f /usr/libsilc.a net-im/silc-client-0.9.11 * appears to be something wrong there.. should probably be in /usr/lib .
This is a source-level issue with SILC. It disobeys explicit --prefix and --libdir commands to ./configure, even though ./configure states that it will obey them. I'll put a bug up on SILC's Bugzilla when it's back up.
This has been fixed in the latest release. Excellent. Marking RESOLVED FIXED.