program fails if built in source tree (was: GNU Libtool 1.5.23b released (alpha release).)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Haibin, 

Apologies for the delay.
Let's keep this discussion on the libtool list only. 

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:22:53PM +0800, haibin zhang wrote:
> HI ,
> I have tested  1.5.23b in mingw in Windows XP, but I still find the bug of 
> libtool.
> The bug is : 
> If I build my project in directory same as source code directory, the built file can't be run.

I've taken a look at your package, but not tried to compile it
(due to the list of dependencies). 

One bug I see is that you use things like 

unitTest_LDFLAGS   = -L$(top_builddir)/src -lhbstock2 $(CPPUNIT_LD_INC)
unitTest_DEPENDENCIES   = $(top_builddir)/src/libhbstock2.la 

This isn't right.  For libraries built in the same package, you should
just use the .la file name as dependencies in *_LDADD.  Then Automake
will compute the *_DEPENDENCIES automatically for you, and also libtool
will do the right thing.  Like this: 

unitTest_LDADD = $(top_builddir)/src/libhbstock2.la $(CPPUNIT_LD_INC) 

similar with the other programs. 

Does that fix the failure?  If not, then please post the output of
make clean; make 

for the setup that fails (source tree == build tree). 

Cheers,
Ralf