with such a library, libtool will actually link all object files and
dependency libraries into the program.
-If you omit both @samp{-rpath} and @samp{-static}, libtool create a
-libtool convenience library that can be used to create other libtool
+If you omit both @samp{-rpath} and @samp{-static}, libtool will create a
+convenience library that can be used to create other libtool
libraries, even shared ones. Just like in the static case, the library
behaves as an alias to a set of object files and dependency libraries,
but in this case the object files are suitable for inclusion in shared