Can I make a convenience library from non-convenience libraries

[Andy Falanga (afalanga)]

Following on the heels of my earlier question, wrapping other libraries with 
--whole-archive, another question now arises.  While talking with a co-worker, 
he made the suggestion of just making a convenience library of the other 
libraries.  The reason for the question is, there are no sources for this 
library ... just the previous libraries.  All of the examples I see in the 
automake documentation for making convenience libraries shows pretty much the 
same thing: e.g.


noinst_LTLIBRARIES = convenience.la
convenience_la_SOURCES = ...

What I'm wondering about doing is something like this:

noinst_LTLIBRARIES = convenience.la
convenience_la_LIBADD = $(top_builddir)/Shared/HwMgmt/.libs/libHwMgmt.la

# the python module library
lib_LTLIBRARIES = sata.la
sata_la_LIBADD = convenience.la


Is this something that is supported/possible?

Andy