Building a number of small shared modules

[Joshua Kwan]

I'm currently trying to convert ircd-hybrid's build system to use 
automake. However, there are some issues with building our ircd modules.

We currently use a suffix rule to build all the shared libraries. (Check 
out ircd-hybrid.com/snapshot and download a CURRENT tarball, and look at 
modules/Makefile.in.) However, this kind of flexibility doesn't seem to 
be available in automake 1.7. AIUI I have to specify a _SOURCES, _LIBS 
for each and every source file. And because we have different kinds of 
operating system conditionals where shared modules are built with 
different extensions (as an example) this has to be done two or three 
times.

Is there an easy way to do this? We were hoping that automake would make 
things simpler, and for most of the source tree, it has, but not in the 
modules world :)

Regards
Josh

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