using packages that use libtool

[Bob Rossi]

Hi,

I'm new to libtool obviously. Could you point me to a place in the
manual that describes how a package can use a library from another
packages that uses libtool.

I've built libexpat. It produces,
  $ ls ~/expat/prefixdir/lib                                                    
                          
  libexpat.a  libexpat.dll.a  libexpat.la                                       
                          

My package is not using libtool. Can I link to the expat library? Or do
I also need to use libtool?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi