mutliple directories for _LIBADD

[Gary Hughes]

Is there anyway to specify mutiple directories for a libtool library 
referenced in a _LIBADD statement?

i.e. Instead of writing

program_LIBADD    =    $(libdir)/libsomething.la

Is there a way of telling automake that libsomething.la may be in any of 
several directories?

The reason is that we currently have a system where there is a central 
set of bin, lib and include directories that are referenced 
automatically if a given developer has not compiled a particular module. 
Secondly, each developer has their own bin, lib, and include directories 
that are looked in first so if they are working on particular module 
they link against their copy without affecting anyone else.

The current system simply sets the appropriate -L linker flags and 
everything works fine. I don't want to resort to this approach because I 
lose the ability of libtool to automatically link dependencies for me.

Is there any way of achieving this with automake and libtool?

thanks.

Gary.