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Re: Disabling linking


From: Stephen Torri
Subject: Re: Disabling linking
Date: 07 Oct 2002 21:27:25 -0500

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 21:11, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Torri <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Stephen> In part of a project we generate code from an IDL
> Stephen> compiler. All we want to do is ensure that the files compile
> Stephen> but we do not want to link everything together to create an
> Stephen> executable. Is it possible to stop automake from invoking the
> Stephen> linker for just one directory?
> 
> Not cleanly.
> 
> You could specify the _LINK variable to be `true' or something like
> that.  That would prevent linking.  You might have to add a `.PHONY:
> programname' for it to make sense though.

The end result was to change the target name from a binary program to a
library. By renaming the file from target to libtarget.la and changing
bin_PROGRAMS to noinst_LIBRARIES I was able to get the IDL generated
client files compiled without linking into other libraries.

Stephen

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