Re: Common Source code

[Warren Young]

Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> I've created liblogger basically as a new project with configure.ac
> and Makefile.am, etc. It builds ok and then I added to Makefile.am of
> both lib1 and lib2:
> lib1_la_LIBADD = ../../liblogger/src/liblogger.la

Actually, what I was suggesting is that you build and _install_ support 
libraries like this.  For example, libblogger.* might get installed to 
/usr/local/lib, and you'd use your linker's library search features 
(-L), instead of hard-coding relative paths like this.  This makes the 
most sense when several unrelated programs use the library.

On the other hand, if liblogger is only used with this one program 
you're talking about, then using relative paths is the right way to go. 
 But instead of giving it a completely separate configuration process, 
you should probably just turn it into a convenience library.  See the 
"goat book" for more on this:

        http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_74.html