Re: making convenience libraries without libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

I believe that Automake relies on libtool to support convenience
libraries.

Bob

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Marty Leisner wrote:

> 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.
>
> marty         address@hidden
> Don't  confuse education with schooling.
>       Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra
>
>

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