Re: Including static libraries in shared libraries with libtool.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Simon Richter wrote:
> > 1. Libtool takes _all_ modules from libauth.la, and puts them into
> > libauthuserdb.la.  I only want the modules that libauthuserdb.la actually
> > needs.
>
> A "convenience library", as a libtool library that is not installed is
> called, is linked into each object that uses it. If the object is a
> library, it is copied completely, otherwise, it is linked statically.
> This feature is intended for huge libraries that are built from multiple
> subdirectories, where each subdir builds a convenience lib and
> everything is linked in the end.

Using recent Automake, I find that I am able to eliminate use of 
convenience libraries by using a non-recursive build and referring to 
sources in subdirectories.  A simple Automake macro refers to all the 
objects which would be equivalent to a convenience "library".  Works 
great and avoids the overhead imposed by libtool since libtool must 
extract all the objects from the archive file prior to using them.

Bob
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