Re: AM_CONDITIONAL not working properly, or I just don't understand :-(

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > Completely untested, but have you tried:
> >
> > pkglib_LTLIBRARIES =
> > noinst_LTLIBRARIES =
> > if INSTALL_LIBS
> > pkglib_LTLIBRARIES += $(LIBLIST)
> > else
> > noinst_LTLIBRARIES += $(LIBLIST)
> > endif
>
> Just tried it, same results, automake reports each module in LIBLIST as 
> "already going to be installed in 'noinst'". In fact, I even tried 
> changing noinst_ to lib_, and now it reports "already going to be 
> installed in 'lib'".

Argh! No wait, I am a dufus.  A noinst_LTLIBRARY is always a convenience 
library, whereas a pkglib_LTLIBRARY is affected by configure --disable-shared 
etc.  Even if you somehow got past the syntax problems, the semantics are all 
wrong anyhow.

The only way I can think of doing this is with an install-exec-hook that 
removes installed libraries if INSTALL_LIBS was not set:

    if !INSTALL_LIBS
    install-exec-hook:
            $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) uninstall-pkglibLTLIBRARIES
    endif

But this depends on an undocumented target.  Better to put the modules in a 
separate dir with their own Makefile.am, and call that Makefile's uninstall 
rule in the same way.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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