Re: configuring libltdl

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
| On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:35:25PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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|>If so, all we need is to add a call to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to
|>AC_LIB_LTDL.  Hmmm, but then if a non-automake project calls
|>AC_LIB_LTDL, when they run autoreconf, it will run automake -a :-(
|
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| Running automake in this case sounds sensible to me.
|   1) You need to have libltdl/Makefile.in regenerated with the
|      automake version that matches the aclocal version used to rebuild
|      aclocal.m4
|   2) automake should only rebuild the Makefile.in which have a matching
|      Makefile.am.  So this is a no-op for the rest of the project.

Had to read that twice to get my head around it, but yes, I agree with you.

| Unfortunately I think it won't work, because autoreconf probes for a
| Makefile.am in the top-level directory to decide whether automake must
| be run.  (BTW, assuming the file is named Makefile.am is not always
| correct.)  It should be easy to fix autoreconf, though.

Yep, that makes sense.

| What is likely to fail with such a scheme are the automatic rebuild
| rules for libltdl/Makefile.in.  They assume the top-level Makefile
| contains some special rules to rebuilds things.

So we need to add (to automake) a mechanism to enable us to specify local
rebuild rules in libltdl/Makefile.am, without referring to automake internals,
and have those propogate into libltdl/Makefile instead of the automake
generated rules?

Bob, do you feel like pursuing any of this?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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