Re: relocatable-lib and "make distcheck"

[Reuben Thomas]

On 29 March 2017 at 13:38, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

On 29 March 2017 at 13:32, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

I cannot see how relocatable.c is treated specially (i.e. included directly, as it needs to be, rather than just via libgnu.la). m4/relocatable-lib.m4 doesn't seem to mention it, and modules/relocatable-lib-lgpl doesn't seem to do anything special with the relocatable.[ch] files, just mentions them as deps.

​OK, this happens by means of AC_LIBOBJ([relocatable]) in configure.ac, as mandated by the relocatable documentation.

​Further, neither gettext nor hello calls AC_LIBOBJ in configure.ac.

I can find some code that parses the Makefile include lines in /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/depend.m4, but I can't find where they are generated (looking in automake, aclocal and autoconf).

I'm now just floundering around in the sources without a very clear idea, a long way from any documentation, so I shall back up and try to create a minimal failing example.

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