Re: Statically compiled binaries not re-linked as expected.

[Seb James]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 23:42 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Seb,
> 
> please keep the mailing list in Cc:, thanks.
> 
> * Seb James wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:49:34PM CEST:
> > > > However, if I reconfigure like this:
> > > > 
> > > > ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
> > > > 
> > > > Then make clean && make will generate a mainprog with libproject
> > > > statically linked into the executable. So far so good.
> > > > 
> > > > However, if I change libcodefiles.cpp and re-call make, libproject is
> > > > recompiled, but the executable mainprog is not re-linked.
> 
> > The project is called "wmlcbr" with the root directory "wmlcbr"
> > containing just the "main()" function of each program and most of the
> > code in wmlcbr/wmlcbr/
> 
> > wmlcbrfilt_LDADD = -L./wmlcbr -lwmlcbr -lcups -lwmllicence -lwmlppfilt 
> > -lwmlppcommon -lxml++-2.6 -lwmlcups -lcups -luuid -lmysqlpp -lmysqlclient 
> > -L/usr/lib/mysql
> 
> Please drop the -L./wmlcbr and change all in-build-tree library
> references to be like wmlcbr/libwmlcbr.la:
> 
>   wmlcbrfilt_LDADD = wmlcbr/libwmlcbr.la -lcups -lwmllicence -lwmlppfilt 
> -lwmlppcommon -lxml++-2.6 -lwmlcups -lcups -luuid -lmysqlpp -lmysqlclient 
> -L/usr/lib/mysql
> 
> Similar for all other in-tree libraries that the line may have, and all
> other programs.  BTW, omit the ./ before wmlcbr, in-tree file names
> can be reused in wmlcbrfilt_DEPENDENCIES by automake.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf

Hi Ralf,

Many thanks for pointing out the errors in my Makefile.am. After making
the changes you suggested above, all my static binaries are now
correctly re-built when changes are made in the wmlcbr/ subdirectory
containing the code for libwmlcbr.

best,

Seb James