Re: non-recursive automake advice?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "tom" == tom fogal <address@hidden> writes:
>
> tom> Basically I'd like each module to build their own libtool convenience
> tom> library, and then have /src/Makefile.am link all of those modules'
> tom> convenience libraries into one that is the union of all of them.
>
> Do you really want each separate convenience library, or is that just
> inertia?  I ask because if you don't want separate ones, the task
> becomes even simpler.

This is a very good point.  Convenience libraries are really an 
artifact of recursive builds.   When using a non-recursive build, the 
rules to generate all targets is known at once and there is not much 
value associated with using convenience libraries.  You can choose to 
put the built objects in the same relative directory as the sources, 
or they can be put somewhere else.  Likewise, built libraries can be 
put wherever you want in the tree.

While the former version of GraphicsMagick uses a recursive build and 
convenience libraries, the use of convenience libraries was easily 
eliminated due to the switch to a non-recursive build.

Bob
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