Re: how to install static library?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ting,

* susan xie wrote on Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:53:03PM CET:
> > 
> > I have a third-party static library distributed with my software
> > package, and I want to install it into the libraries during 'make
> > install'. Do you know how to do that? Thanks in advance. 

> Finally I use 'data' prefix to install the library into the '/share'  
> directory. It works. 
> 
> nobase_data_DATA = lib/linux/foo.a lib/linux64/foo.a include/foo.h

Why are you shipping a binary file in your sources?
If you really, really need to, then do it like this, please:

  include_HEADERS = foo.h
  shipped_lib_dir = $(libdir)
  nobase_shipped_lib_DATA = linux/foo.a linux64/foo.a

But it seems very very ugly to me to do that.  Your package should just
create the libraries.

Cheers,
Ralf