Re: Problems getting dependencies compiled before executable....

[Santosh]

Why not have the executable outside and the library
in a subdirectory. That is how I put my libraries.

src/main.c
src/helperfunctions/helperfunctions.a

with regards,
Santosh.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 
address@hidden wrote:

> Assar
> 
> Thanks for the email. I am using Red Hat 8 which means
> automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.53.  I spent some time
> creating a very *simple* example like you requested.
> I'd be very grateful if you looked at it....
> 
> In order to show you my problem with _DEPENDENCIES I
> intentionally put the executable in src/exec and
> the library stuff in src.  Since the executable in
> src/exec cannot be built without the library in src
> being built *first*, I was hoping build process would
> realize this and adjust accordingly.  It didn't and
> I got error message I want to fix.
> 
> Here are the contents of 2 Makefile.am's that need to be fixed.....
> 
> src/Makefile.am:
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> noinst_LIBRARIES             = libhelperfunctions.a
> libhelperfunctions_a_SOURCES = printmessage1.c
>                                printmessage1.h
>                                printmessage2.c
>                                printmessage2.h
>                                printmessage3.c
>                                printmessage3.h
> SUBDIRS                      = exec
> 
> 
> src/exec/Makefile.am
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> bin_PROGRAMS      = main
> main_SOURCES      = main.c
> main_LDADD        = -lhelperfunctions -lpthread -lm
> main_DEPENDENCIES = ../libhelperfunctions.a
> main_LDFLAGS      = -L ../
> INCLUDES          = -I ../
> 
> Here is what happens when I type make at top of source tree
> (BTW: $(top_srcdir) = /home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2)....
> 
> Making all in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2/src'
> Making all in exec
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2/src/exec'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../libhelperfunctions.a', needed by
> `main'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2/src/exec'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> 
> Here is a listing of entire source tree before doing anything...
> 
> 
> (laptop /home/seberino/MAIN/Wb/efe2) % ls -lR
> .:
> total 24
> drwxrwxr-x    3 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:23 ./
> drwxrwxr-x   15 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 10:51 ../
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 seberino seberino      149 Jun 10 10:51 bootstrap
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      177 Jun 10 10:58 configure.ac
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino       14 Jun 10 10:51 Makefile.am
> drwxrwxr-x    4 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:24 src/
> 
> ./src:
> total 44
> drwxrwxr-x    4 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:24 ./
> drwxrwxr-x    3 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:23 ../
> drwxrwxr-x    2 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:24 exec/
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      380 Jun 10 10:56 Makefile.am
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      189 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage1.c
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      249 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage1.h
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      189 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage2.c
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      249 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage2.h
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      189 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage3.c
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      249 Jun 10 10:51 printmessage3.h
> 
> ./src/exec:
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x    2 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:24 ./
> drwxrwxr-x    4 seberino seberino     4096 Jun 10 11:24 ../
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      625 Jun 10 10:51 main.c
> -rw-rw-r--    1 seberino seberino      202 Jun 10 11:07 Makefile.am
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  -------- Original Message --------
>    Subject: Re: Problems getting dependencies compiled before executable....
>    From: Assar Westerlund <address@hidden>
>    Date: Fri, June 6, 2003 10:38 pm
>    To: <address@hidden>
> 
>    <address@hidden> writes:
>    > I would have preferred that build system would see
>    >
>    >    myprogram_DEPENDENCIES = libmylibrary.a
>    >
>    > and automatically known to build library FIRST.
> 
>    Why don't you use myprogram_LDADD = libmylibrary.a ?
> 
>    I'm not able to reproduce your problem.  Can you tell us what version
>    of automake you're running and show us a minimal example that
>    shows the problem?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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