On 2003-07-29 17:52:32 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:34:14PM +0200, Mattias Br?ndstr?m wrote: > > librkcone_LDADD = common/libcommon.a > > > > is for some reason not a portable thing to do? > > A static or convenience library is usually built without -fPIC, so > it can't be included in a shared library.
I generally feel that if it's worth making it a separate entity you may as well install it as a separate entity -- in this case I would do: pkglib_LTLIBRARIES=common/libcommon.la librkcone_LDADD=common/libcommon.la Which will work everywhere (ish). The problem with this approach is that if someone not using libtool links against $(libdir)/librkcone.so they will get undefined references to the symbols in $(pkglibdir)/libcommon.so. A solution to this is to force everyone to use libtool/automake/autoconf, which I personally don't have a problem with. Note that some architectures allow the library dependency information to be embedded in the shared library so this won't be a problem on these systems provided libtool is smart enough to do it. Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK -- echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku" Why reinvent the wheel? Because we can make it rounder...
