[CMake] faking convenience libraries

[Bill Hoffman]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>>> We need to compile the same underlying code 7 times for 7 different 
>>> libraries.  3 of the resulting libs are dynamic and 4 are static.
>>
>> I am not following the example here.   If PCRE where a "convenience" 
>> library you would want it
>> to be used by both the static and shared libchicken?  There are 
>> different compile flags for shared
>> and static so, it would have to be compiled twice.   What are the 7 
>> different types of libraries?
>>
>
> As I said above.
What are the differences besides static and shared.  If there are 
differences, then I don't see how convenience libraries
would help.  It would seem that each object file would have to be 
compiled 7 times regardless. 

-Bill