Re: Questions on exporting functions from a shared library

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Jef Driesen wrote on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:26:46PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> * Jef Driesen wrote on Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:24:46AM CEST:
>>> BTW, what is the reason that when I use mylib_la_CFLAGS = 
>>> -DMYLIB_BUILD,  in Makefile.am, all my object files are named 
>>> "mylib_la-myfile.o"  instead of the regular "myfile.o"?
>>
>> Addressed here:
>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/renamed-objects.html>
>
> I was already thinking in that direction, but since there is only one  
> target that needs to be build in my case, there is no need to rename  
> object files and I assumed automake would not rename.

Problem is, it would be potentially costly for automake to find out
whether there is only one such object.  And maybe even impossible:
there could be @substituted@ sources, where it's not known a priori
whether they are built or not.

> That's why I  
> curious whether there was another reason that could cause this.

No, AFAIK.

Cheers,
Ralf