[CMake] how to select static libraries for linking?

[James C. Sutherland]

>
> If you are distributing your application on a Mac, then there are  
> myriads of methods to distribute the shared libraries with the  
> application.
>
James,
Can you point me in the right direction?
I haven't yet tried this on Linux, so I don't know what land mines  
await me there...
Thanks,
James

P.S. are you the James Bigler at the University of Utah?