Re: libtool : No rule to make target with LDADD

[Sylvestre Ledru]

> Sorry for the delay.
No worries !
[...]

>   scilex_LDADD = routines/libscilab.la
> 
> and make sure that it gets built before the program.  If
> routines/libscilab.la is built from the same Makefile.am, that should
> happen automatically, given that you do _not_ have set
> scilex_DEPENDENCIES.  (If you have, you have to add the library in there
> manually.)
> 
> If the library is built from a different Makefile.am, make sure to have
> the proper build order so that it is built before the toplevel; see
>   info Automake Subdirectories
Indeed, that was the issue. I had guessed that routines/libscilab.la will be 
compiled if it is not in the same Makefile.am.
But when I changed the order in the subdir

> > After an autoreconf, configure and make, it stops with the error :
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `routines/libscilab.la ', needed by
> > `scilex'.  Stop.
> 
> The space in `routines/libscilab.la '
>                                    ^
> 
> looks fishy to me.  Is that a cut'n'paste error?
nop
it is because I specificied libs like that :
plop.la \
plup.la \ ...

Thank you !
Sylvestre