Re: Using convenience libraries with non-recursive make

[Del Merritt]

On 08/15/2012 03:16 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 15/08/2012 08:26, Del Merritt wrote:
> >     nodist_EXTRA_libmyprog_la_SOURCES = dummy.cxx
> I would bet that this one is giving you trouble, but...

I was using that on a hint from the automake manual:

   
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Libtool-Convenience-Libraries.html#Libtool-Convenience-Libraries

Is that a known problem?

> why are you using multiple convenience libraries? If you're not going to
> install any of them, and the result is one final binary, you should just
> list all the sources to that one target.

All good questions; mostly because I am not completely sure yet that a) 
I won't want to be able to install the sub-libraries later, b) my 
hand-built makefiles do it this way already, so I was minimizing 
change,  and c) this is my first run creating an autoconfiscated project.

Oh, and d) when I try to do a "make dist" with my thousands of source 
files, I was met with a "command line too long" error.  So I was trying 
to keep things in smaller chunks to see if that would help all of the 
make targets work better.

Thanks,
-Del

> This also helps if you change
> some of the source files as it only needs to re-perform the final link
> step instead of having to do one or more ar calls.
>
> And I somehow doubt you want to use lib_LTLIBRARIES given the name
> (which will install the libraries as well).