libtool and gcj static libraries

I have been unable to create a static library of java sources using libtool. $ cat Makefile.am noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libhello.la libhello_la_SOURCES = HelloWorld.java $ make libhello.la /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcj-3.4 -g -O2 -o libhello.la HelloWorld.lo rm -fr .libs/libhello.la creating libh

missing .so extension

For some reason, the .so extension is missing from the shared library I'm building. libtool generates a file called libpathportjni.0.0.0 instead of the libparthportjni.so.0.0.0 that I'm looking for. I'm not sure what has changed. This was working nicely only a week ago. When I run make, here is the