Re: Howto tell libtool to generate multiple libraries from a variable?

[Bob Rossi]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:32:07AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> * Bob Rossi wrote on Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:34:57PM CEST:
> > 
> > What I want to do is this:
> > 
> >   PLUGINS = plugin1 plugin2
> > 
> >   lib_LTLIBRARIES += $(patsubst %, lib%.la, $(PLUGINS))
> >   $(patsubst %, lib%_la_SOURCES, $(PLUGINS)) = address@hidden
> >   $(patsubst %, lib%_la_CPPFLAGS, $(PLUGINS)) = -I$(top_srcdir)/lib
> >   $(patsubst %, lib%_la_LDFLAGS, $(PLUGINS)) = "-no-undefined"
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> First, actually this is entirely an Automake issue, not a Libtool one.
> automake is not able to parse GNU make-specific constructs like patsubst
> and similar.  If in this Makefile.am, you build no other stuff, you can
> turn flags globally by setting AM_CPPFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS, but I'm
> afraid you'll have to list libraries and their sources explicitly.

I see, sorry about spamming this list. I'm still slightly fuzzy on the
libtool/automake boundries.

> If I were you, I'd write a script generating a makefile snippet to be
> included from Makefile.am.

Hmm, great idea! That is exactly what I will do. 

Thank you.
Bob Rossi