Re: Including static libraries in shared libraries with libtool.

[Fredrick Meunier]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Using recent Automake, I find that I am able to eliminate use of 
> convenience libraries by using a non-recursive build and referring to 
> sources in subdirectories.  A simple Automake macro refers to all the 
> objects which would be equivalent to a convenience "library".  Works 
> great and avoids the overhead imposed by libtool since libtool must 
> extract all the objects from the archive file prior to using them.

This works great as long as you do not have multiple libraries with 
cross-library dependencies and a binary using those libraries in your 
single automake project.

This is because automake manages the various inter-library dependencies 
during building successfully, but then does not handle dependencies at 
all during installation. As a result you will probably get linker errors 
on install :(

Fred