Re: linking static libs into shared lib with libtool

[Albert Chin]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:01:46PM +0200, Ron Lange wrote:
> I want to link a shared php extension which is using libtool in 
> conjuction with automake/autoconf. This .so is using other libs, which I 
> need to be statically linked into the module.
> 
> Actually I am quite confused of the php build mechanism, modifying the 
> config.m4 doesn't cause the static libs linked into the shared one.  I 
> modified the config_vars.mk by inserting just '-L/pathtolibs -llibname 
> ...' into the INCLUDES var...terrible way, I know...
> 
> Now the libs seems to be linked in, but during the use of the php-module 
> it is concerning about unreachable shared objects, which I actually 
> wanted to be linked statically in...
> 
> How you get libtool to link first the needed libs statically into the 
> proper library then this lib into a shared object?

Make the first set of libs convenience libraries.

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albert chin (address@hidden)