making convenience libraries without libtool

[Marty Leisner]

I'm using libtool to make convenience libraries merging
sublibraries...

I really don't need to use libtool since I don't build shared libraries.

How can I use automake to build convenience libraries -- or do I 
need to make a command in the makefile.am  I can invoke like 
this:

build_lib  -o libtarget.a foo/libfoo.a bar/libbar.a common/libcommon.a

where build lib busts up the archive foo, bar and common into a temporary
directory and then build libtarget.a.

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