Bill,
In general, Libtool won't prevent you from doing anything
that the linker can. This works by passing flags through
Libtool with these flags:
`-Wl,FLAG'
`-Xlinker FLAG'
Pass a linker specific flag directly to the linker.
`-XCClinker FLAG'
Pass a link specific flag to the compiler
>A convenience library is usually part of your own package,
>it turns into a list of object files when you link to it.
>It could be in a subdirectory, much like libltdl is for
>many packages that use it.
>Here is a section of the manual that mentions them:
>http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manua