Mick - This was very helpful. It got me off the ground and now I think I'm about 90% there. What I'm struggling with now is circular dependencies in libraries. In the old Makefile for this software they dealt with this in this fashion: -Wl,--start-group <libs> -Wl,--end-group
With autoconf/automake this won't work because you're supposed to add linker flags with the _LDFLAGS macro and when you do that it's not positional. In other words you can't put the start group before the libs and the end group after. So I started being creative (i.e. hacking ;) and tried adding this: vlc_LDADD += -Wl,--start-group <libs> -Wl,--end-group That failed when I tried to do the bootstrap because automake didn't like the linker flags in the _LDADD macro. So then I thought I would be really smart and fool it. So I defined START_GROUP and END_GROUP in my configure.ac files and did an AC_SUBST on both. Then in my Makefile.am file I did this: vlc_LDADD += @START_GROUP@ <libs> @END_GROUP@ But these tools are much smarter then me, the bootsrap and configure work fine but when I build I see all the compiler flags listed out including --start-group and --end-group then my libraries listed after them and I still get a link error because of the circular dependencies in the libraries. Any ideas? Thank you very much - you have been a huge help getting me up to speed. Dinosaur Jim -----Original Message----- From: mick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:57 PM To: Jim Rainville Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: adding libraries and header file directories On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 02:36, you wrote: > Hi Mick - > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > ... -I$(path_to_my_headers) -L$(path_to_my_libraries) element_hal > element_sal ... I have used:- bin_PROGRAMS = gyachi gyachi_SOURCES = \ ... INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/gtkhtml-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 gyachi_LDADD = -lltdl -lgtkhtml-2 in the Makefile.am in the src dir to achieve what I think you are trying to do from one dinosaur to an other, Hope this is helpfull /]/]ik
