On 27 Nov 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2000, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> Do I have to use some macro in configure.in to fill $(LINK) with GNU ld?
> Alexandre> automake should define it to `$(LIBTOOL) $(CC/CXX)...'.
> Alexandre> Maybe it only does this when there is at least one source
> Alexandre> file to compile in the current directory?
>
> > Yeah, that's how it works. I realize this is less than good. Can you
> > suggest how it ought to work?
>
> I think the current behavior is fine, since it is indeed invalid to
> create a library or libtool archive out of no source files. However,
> we might output a warning (or even an error) if we find a request to
> create a library out of no source files.
I'm not so sure about this. Unless the CVS versions of the tools have
changed things, the current behaviour makes it impossible to create a
library consisting only of sources in subdirectories. What I would like
to do is:
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la
libfoo_la_LIBADD = \
$(top_builddir)/a/adummy.la \
$(top_builddir)/b/bdummy.la \
$(top_builddir)/c/cdummy.la \
$(top_builddir)/d/ddummy.la
but this fails, so I generally add:
libfoo_la_SOURCES = dummy.c
dummy.c:
touch dummy.c
To me, the last bit seems like a workaround for a bug. Is it impossible
to support building libraries out of ONLY other libraries?
-S
