methinks libtool is too smart?

[Marty Leisner]

I'm working with a tree with libraries with a lot of cross dependencies
(its currently in flux).

It was originally a system with over a hundred objects, we're starting
to use libaries now.

all the libraries are static (I'm on solaris8 now).

I need to link
        g++ -o foo foo.a -lcommon -lhw -lcommon -lhw

So using an autoconf system, I have arule which looks like:

 libtool -n -mode=link g++ -o foo ../common/libCommon.la ../common/libCommon.la 
and libtool translates this into:
g++ -o foo  ../common/.libs/libCommon.a

How can I get it to duplicate the libraries? (for now?)

(at a later date changes will be made not to have this problem)

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