Regarding convenience libraries as aliases for objects

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Sweetman
In the various tutorials and documentation I've read, convenience libraries are said to be like aliases for object files that can be generated to either static or shared libs. I want to use that idea literally. My project has multiple targets that share various groups of source files. The so

Re: Regarding convenience libraries as aliases for objects

2007-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ed Sweetman wrote: I really dont see why libtool generates .a files when they're not going to be installed. Since libtool knows the list of objects related to a ".a" lib, the generation of the .a is a waste of disk space and time. Is it possible One reason to do this i

Re: Regarding convenience libraries as aliases for objects

2007-05-25 Thread Ed Sweetman
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ed Sweetman wrote: I really dont see why libtool generates .a files when they're not going to be installed. Since libtool knows the list of objects related to a ".a" lib, the generation of the .a is a waste of disk space and time. Is it possible