Re: Newbie: Shared library with subdirs & convenience libs

[F J Franklin]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-7] ÁëÝîáíäñïò Êáñõðßäçò (Alexandros Karypidis) 
wrote:

> I am trying to understand how convenience libriaries work.  Using the dir 
> structure "project/src/libX", where X is 1 & 2, I want to create 2 
> convenience libraries in project/src/lib1 & project/src/lib2, then merge them 
> into a shared library in project/src.  So I wrote the following 3 Makefile.am:
> 
> in project/src/lib1:
> noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libgoodbye1.la
> libgoodbye1_la_SOURCES = goodbye1.c
> 
> in project/src/lib2:
> noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libgoodbye2.la
> libgoodbye2_la_SOURCES = goodbye2.c
> 
> in project/src:
> SUBDIRS = lib1 lib2 .
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libgather.la
> libgather_la_LDADD = lib1/libgoodbye1.la lib2/libgoodbye2.ls
> 
> The problem is that automake now complains with:
> 
> "src/Makefile.am:4: use `libgather_la_LIBADD', not `libgather_la_LDADD'"
> 
> 

So why not:

libgather_la_LIBADD = lib1/libgoodbye1.la lib2/libgoodbye2.la

Frank

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