Re: Including static libraries in shared libraries with libtool.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Howard Chu writes:

> One more time, shouting into the senseless void...
>
> If these so-called "convenience" libraries are meant to be linked in 
> whole, they should not be ar archives at all. You should just link them 
> directly into a relocatable object file:
>     ld -r -o <convenience.obj> *.o

And do we know that all platforms have a program called "ld", then 
implements the "-r" option with the given semantics?

That's really the whole point of libtool - to isolate platform-specific 
linker issues.  Might as well chuck libtool completely, and invoke ld by 
yourself, if you know what you're doing.

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