Re: automake Q

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My application has a whole lot of files; I have a tendency to make a file
> for each C++ class. So I want to have subdirectories. However, the 
> subdirectories don't correspond to an executable or library; all the files
> should still be compiled into objects and linked into a single executable
> for the whole package. The subdirectories are purely to help me keep track
> of what's going on.
> 
> Will automake handle this? How?
> 
> Havoc

Well, I've got a similar problem - first, I build a shared library in
each of my subdirectories. Then, I want to make one big shared library
which contains all the other ones like this:

	egcs -shared -o libbig.so object.lo libfirst.so libsecond.so

In this case, the linker should normally include the whole `libfirst.so'
and `libsecond.so' in the `libbig.so' - but I have not yet found any
way to do this with automake.

The only (well, very ugly) workaround - which may also work in your case -
is this (from libgtop/guile/Makefile.am):

libgtop_la_LIBADD               = ../sysdeps/guile/guile.lo \
                                  ../lib/init.lo \
                                  ../lib/open.lo \
                                  ../sysdeps/common/error.lo \
                                  ../sysdeps/common/fsusage.lo \
                                  ../sysdeps/common/gnuslib.lo \
                                  ../sysdeps/@sysdeps_dir@/close.lo \
                                  ../sysdeps/@sysdeps_dir@/shm_limits.lo \

But then, you really have to list every single file from all your subdirs
- - very ugly.

Someone knows a better approach ?

Martin

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