how do libtool convinience libraries work ?

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Montag 25 April 2005 20:28 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:

> I'd like to get this feature into cmake so that the effort to convert 
> automake-based projects/modules to cmake is as small as possible.
> So, this might be hardcoded into cmake as much as it is hardcoded into 
> libtool.
> How does libtool actually handle these convinience libs on other platforms ?

I suggest you ignore the fact that libtool creates an archive out of the shared lib and link
the generated PIC object files right into the shared library where the convenience library
is used (btw: the word has more es than is :)

Greetings, Stephan