Re: Automake problem: one makefile for everything

[David Fang]

> and I want a Makefile.am in the top-level source directory that
> compiles main1.c and main2.c into one library (say libmain.la) and
> mod1.c and mod2.c into libmod.la in the modules directory.  Simple
> request huh?  But in *one* Makefile.am.  How do I do it?
>
> This doesn't do the job:
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmain.la modules/libmod.la
> libmain_la_SOURCES =  main1.c main2.c
> libmod_la_SOURCES = modules/mod1.c modules/mod2.c

Hi,
        Did you mean:
modules_libmod_la_SOURCES = ...
?

You said "... libmod.la in the modules directory."

> libtool doesn't like directory names in the lib_LTLIBRARIES variable.
> But if I go ...
>
>
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmain.la libmod.la

and
modules/libmod.la?

> ...then everything gets built in the top-level directory and I don't
> want that.
>
>
> Can anyone help?  My only work-around at present is to have a  separate
> Makefile in the modules sub-directory, but that won't work anymore
> because I'm building a binary in the top-level Makefile that depends on
> both earlier libraries, while libmod also depends on libmain, i.e.
>
>
> binary -> depends on modules/libmod.la and libmain.la
> modules/libmod.la -> depends on libmain.la
>
>
> If I use separate Makefiles, I'm going to need three to get around the
> dependencies and to get the build order right, and that's going to get
> ugly.


David Fang