Re: "Sublibraries" without libtool

[Yevgen Muntyan]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hello Yevgen,
>
> * Yevgen Muntyan wrote on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:32:11PM CET:
>  
>
> > I am trying to figure out how to avoid using libtool when I don't need a
> > shared library. [...]
> >    
>
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> > subdir1/
> >  libsubdir1.la
> >  subsubdir1/
> >    libsubsubdir1.la
> >  subsubdir2/
> >    libsubsubdir2.la
> >    
>
> Try using a nonrecursive makefile setup, so you don't need the
> intermediate convenience archives.
>  
Well, I didn't mention it, but non-recursive make is one of things
I am trying to do here. Its speed indeed is just awesome, but it also
leads to huge mess: things like
foo_SOURCES += subdir/subdir/subdir/foo.c subdir/subdir/subdir/bar.c;
messy generated files stuff - to keep things nice I need to make
sure subdirectories are created, which leads to creating some funny
stamp files and failing distcheck; compilation flags are hard to
specify on per-directory basis; 'make dist' gets crazy and fails
if you are not careful enough to not list things twice (this is really 
funny
one - investigating why one file is put into dist four times can be pretty
amusing); and so on.

For now, I'd be happy to just avoid using libtool.

Best regards,
Yevgen