Re: lib seach path

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Joakim Tjernlund wrote on Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:33:49PM CET:
> 
> We have this big directory structure which contains both apps and libs.
> The apps needs lots of libs that are scattered in various sub dirs.
> It is rather messy to add lots -LDIR options to apps linking stage.

For dependencies on libraries within the build tree, prefer relative
file references over link flags; i.e., write
  ../lib/libfoo.la  rather than  -L../lib -lfoo

That way, automake (which I assume you're using) will know to rebuild
the output when libfoo changes.

> Is there a way to tell libtool after it has built a lib to do a "subinstall" 
> of the
> lib into some dir in the build tree so that one don't have to specify lots
> of -LDIR options, just to the one dir instead?

No.

Cheers,
Ralf