Re: libs in subdirs

[Lars J. Aas]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:26:09AM -0600, Bryan VanDeVen wrote:
: I think this has been coverered for shlibs but I culd not find anything for 
: static libs...   is there ary way (without libtool at the present) to build 
: static convenience libs and then have them all combined in a top level 
: directory?
: 
: For instance
: 
: ..../somelib
: ..../somelib/dbdbv
: ..../somelib/gdemv
: 
: so there are source files in all three directories, and we would like to 
: eventually combine all the object files into "libsomelib.a"

It's called creating `convenience libraries'.  Check the docs.

I think the frequency for this question qualifies it for the creation of a
FAQ file in the automake distribution (designated to only this question, if 
you may :)...

  Lars J