Re: adding libraries and header file directories

[mick]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:46, you wrote:
> Mick -
>
> This was very helpful. It got me off the ground and now I think I'm
> about 90% there. What I'm struggling with now is circular dependencies
> in libraries. In the old Makefile for this software they dealt with this
> in this fashion:
> -Wl,--start-group <libs> -Wl,--end-group
>
> With autoconf/automake this won't work because you're supposed to add
> linker flags with the _LDFLAGS macro and when you do that it's not
> positional. In other words you can't put the start group before the libs
> and the end group after. So I started being creative (i.e. hacking ;)
> and tried adding this:
>
> vlc_LDADD += -Wl,--start-group <libs> -Wl,--end-group
>
> That failed when I tried to do the bootstrap because automake didn't
> like the linker flags in the _LDADD macro. So then I thought I would be
> really smart and fool it. So I defined START_GROUP and END_GROUP in my
> configure.ac files and did an AC_SUBST on both. Then in my Makefile.am
> file I did this:
>
> vlc_LDADD += @START_GROUP@ <libs> @END_GROUP@
>
> But these tools are much smarter then me, the bootsrap and configure
> work fine but when I build I see all the compiler flags listed out
> including --start-group and --end-group then my libraries listed after
> them and I still get a link error because of the circular dependencies
> in the libraries.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Sorry, this one is beyond me, I hope some one else on this list can run with 
it.
/]/]ik