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Re: making convenience libraries without libtool
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Marty Leisner <mleisner at eng dot mc dot xerox dot com>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:11:32 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: making convenience libraries without libtool
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 mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com
> Don't confuse education with schooling.
> Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra
>
>
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Bob Friesenhahn
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