building a libtool library from standard objects doesn't fail!

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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I'm auditing doc/libtool.texi in preparation for the release :-)

According to the manual:

~   Again, the libtool library name differs from the standard name (it
~ has a `.la' suffix instead of a `.a' suffix).  The arguments to libtool
~ are the same ones you would use to produce an executable named
~ `libhello.la' with your compiler (*note Link mode::):

~     a23$ libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O -o libhello.la foo.o hello.o
~     libtool: cannot build libtool library `libhello.la' from non-libtool 
objects
~     a23$

~   Aha!  Libtool caught a common error... trying to build a library
~ from standard objects instead of library objects.  This doesn't matter
~ for static libraries, but on shared library systems, it is of great
~ importance.

And yet:

~  ~/devel/savannah/libtool/tests/demo $ ./libtool link gcc -g -O -o
libhello.la foo.o hello.o

~ *** Warning: Linking the shared library libhello.la against the non-libtool
~ *** objects  foo.o hello.o is not portable!
~ ar cru .libs/libhello.a
~ ranlib .libs/libhello.a
~ creating libhello.la
~ (cd .libs && rm -f libhello.la && ln -s ../libhello.la libhello.la)
~ ~/devel/savannah/libtool/tests/demo $ ar t .libs/libhello.a
~ ~/devel/savannah/libtool/tests/demo $ ls -l .libs
~ total 9
~ -rw-r--r--   1 gary     gary         9516 Feb 23 13:31 foo.o
~ -rw-r--r--   1 gary     gary         9436 Feb 23 13:31 hello.o
~ -rw-r--r--   1 gary     gary            8 Feb 23 13:34 libhello.a
~ lrwxrwxrwx   1 gary     gary           14 Feb 23 13:34 libhello.la ->
../libhello.la
~ ~/devel/savannah/libtool/tests/demo $


BUG 1:  The manual does not match what the user will see if they try it
BUG 2:  Libtool makes an empty ar archive

ChangeLog archaeology doesn't reveal anything.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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