Getting filenames for libraries

[Jason Curl]

Hello,

I can't move over to libtool 2.2.x just yet (most distros I support 
still have 1.5.26 - sorry) and I'm generating libraries.

Is there any way, given an la file, to get the file name of the library 
that will be generated at make time?

libtool --config gives me partial information (such as the 
library_names_spec and soname_spec) but some of the variables are 
missing, such as ${shared_ext}, etc. I was kind of hoping there might be 
also someway to call script libtool and get the information directly 
from the source, is this even possible?

If libtool 2.2.x supports this, I guess it might be one reason to move 
up, however most of our development environments (SuSE 11.0, cygwin, 
solaris) still have libtool 1.5.26.

I'm writing a macro to get this, but it seems much a copy of libtool and 
what's in the m4 files from libtool.

Thanks,
Jason.