Re: naming convention for object files.

[Miles Bader]

Nicolas Bock <address@hidden> writes:
> libsomething_la_CPPFLAGS = -I../../
...
> the naming changed from a.F90 -> libsomething_la-a.lo to a.F90 ->
> a.lo. Very strange.

It's an annoying, but documented, effect of using per-library CFLAGS:
when you do that, automake decides that it must generate unique object
files for that library, and so uses the library name as a prefix for
the object file.  This is presumably because it's _possible_ --
although I think very rare -- to use the same source file in multiple
libraries, and with per-library flags, the resulting object files may
actually differ (whereas without per-library flags, they'd be the
same).

[I wish automake would only use the prefixes in cases where a source
file is _actually_ used in multiple libraries; since I think it almost
never happens that people actually do this, that would mean almost no
object files would use the prefix.  Maybe that's annoying to implement
though...]

You _can_ change the name of the prefix used, by setting the
"SHORTNAME" attribute, e.g.

  libbozo_la_SHORTNAME = bozo

-miles

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