Hello Kent, * Kent Boortz wrote on Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:55:18PM CEST: > > I build using "-static" given to libtool when creating executables, to > link statically with our own libraries, but dynamically against system > libraries.
There are two answers to address your issues: 1) Upcoming Libtool 1.5.24 (already in alpha release 1.5.23b) will provide -static-libtool-libs which links statically against both uninstalled and installed libtool libraries. -static only links statically against uninstalled libtool libraries. (I don't think you need this, but wanted to make you aware of it; the semantics of -static were different in previous 1.5.x releases, but were changed in 1.5.22 to match 1.4.x behavior and to match the documentation.) 2) If you want a static library installed, and a convenience library for subsuming stuff in other libs, then just create both as separate entities. The name of the second one will remain local to your package. The downside of this is one extra `libtool', `ar' and `ranlib' invocation. === libstatdir/Makefile.am === pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = libstat.la noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libconv.la libstat_la_LDFLAGS = -static libstat_la_SOURCES = ... libconv_la_SOURCES = $(libstat_la_SOURCES) === libdyndir/Makefile.am ==== pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = libdyn.la libdyn_la_SOURCES = libdyn.c libdyn_la_LIBADD = $(top_builddir)/libstatdir/libconv.la Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
