Building a library is much like building a program. In this case, the
name of the primary is `LIBRARIES'. Libraries can be installed in
libdir or pkglibdir.
See section Building a Shared Library, for information on how to build shared libraries using Libtool and the `LTLIBRARIES' primary.
Each `_LIBRARIES' variable is a list of the libraries to be built. For instance to create a library named `libcpio.a', but not install it, you would write:
noinst_LIBRARIES = libcpio.a
The sources that go into a library are determined exactly as they are for programs, via the `_SOURCES' variables. Note that the library name is canonicalized (see section How derived variables are named), so the `_SOURCES' variable corresponding to `liblob.a' is `liblob_a_SOURCES', not `liblob.a_SOURCES'.
Extra objects can be added to a library using the `library_LIBADD'
variable. This should be used for objects determined by
configure. Again from cpio:
libcpio_a_LIBADD = @LIBOBJS@ @ALLOCA@
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