Re: AM_CONDITIONAL not working properly, or I just don't understand :-(

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Argh! No wait, I am a dufus.  A noinst_LTLIBRARY is always a convenience 
> library, whereas a pkglib_LTLIBRARY is affected by configure 
> --disable-shared etc.  Even if you somehow got past the syntax problems, 
> the semantics are all wrong anyhow.

I'm not sure I follow all of that, but OK.

> The only way I can think of doing this is with an install-exec-hook that 
> removes installed libraries if INSTALL_LIBS was not set:
>
>     if !INSTALL_LIBS
>     install-exec-hook:
>         $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) uninstall-pkglibLTLIBRARIES
>     endif
>
> But this depends on an undocumented target.  Better to put the modules 
> in a separate dir with their own Makefile.am, and call that Makefile's 
> uninstall rule in the same way.

Yuck... that means my users will see the libtool --mode=install 
messages and ldconfig runs for all 30+ modules, then they'll all get 
removed. For now I think I can live with the files getting installed 
and the users just knowing that they're not necessary for the 
application to be used.