*.a, new examples and new automake-1.12 file (ar-lib)
Change-Id: I28d7bc59a2977a7c5959940936e3d13a71dd149c
(cherry picked from commit 3a15125d2f1916cd42c2f438e6f60d876b63235b)
Makes things lighter at the expense of requiring the user
to be up-to-date for autotools.
patch by Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at medozas dot de)
Change-Id: Icfcab2d899828a213d9fade0dab350dacd0c070a