Including static libraries

[Sameer Naik <sameer at nextbitcpu dot com>]

*Hello,
   im creating a shared library. and trying to link it to a static 
library with extentions of the form video.a470MV.
im including the whole path of the library in the LDFLAGS 
(/home/sameersbn/libs/video.a470MV)
these are included in the Makefile.am file.
when the linking is done, no errors are flashed and the linking 
procedure completes without complains. but if i run the nm command on 
the library created, i dont see any symbols of the static library in the 
symbol table.
instead if i extract the .o470MV file from the static library and rename 
them to .o and archive it as .a and do the linking again, then  it works 
fine  and the symbol table shows  the new  symbol entries.
i would like to know how to get my .a470MV libraries to successfully get 
linked into my new library.
plz help

thanks in advance
tc
sameer
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