I have multiple executables built from my source tree. Some files in 1 directory are needed by many executables so I made a library to link everwhere needed.
This one directory now must build this library and ALSO the executable in that directory. It was a real struggle to get library built FIRST as well as executable in same directory. I don't know if I did it the easiest way. Autotools book mentions putting SUBDIRS at the TOP of Makefile.am with a "." (i.e. current directory) as one of the subdirs. Apparently you can get current directory worked on before subdirs this way. I would have preferred that build system would see myprogram_DEPENDENCIES = libmylibrary.a and automatically known to build library FIRST. Instead I always got messages about 'make' not finding rule to build this target even though I have noninst_LIBRARIES = libmylibrary.a in same Makefile.am. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris
