Re: is this a bug or intended behavior

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 12:45 -0700, Samuel Klatchko wrote:
> The real use case is when I have a Makefile that is building both an
> shared object and an executable that uses it.  I want to factor LDLIBS
> into common libraries that both use and specific libraries that are
> only for the shared object or the executable.  But due to this
> behavior, I can't have the executable dependent on the shared object.

You just need to factor them out into different variables; one
containing common libraries and one for specific ones.  The rule for
building shared libraries only uses the common ones and the rule for
building the executable uses both.

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