in configure.ac (after all the libtool-related macros but before AC_OUTPUT):
AM_CONDITIONAL(INSTALL_LIBS, test x$enable_shared = xyes)
in Makefile.am:
... LIBLIST = src/lib/libnALFS.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/alfs.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/build.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/chroot.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/configure.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/copy.la LIBLIST += src/handlers/execute.la ... (more of the same) if INSTALL_LIBS INSTALL_LIBLIST = $(LIBLIST) else INSTALL_LIBLIST = endif if !INSTALL_LIBS NOINST_LIBLIST = $(LIBLIST) else NOINST_LIBLIST = endif pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = $(INSTALL_LIBLIST) noinst_LTLIBRARIES = $(NOINST_LIBLIST)
With this construction, automake complains "src/handlers/alfs.la is already going to be installed in 'noinst'" (for each library). All _SOURCES/_LDFLAGS/etc. variables for these libraries appear after this set of lines (I have tried them before and after, no difference). I have tried setting pkglib_LTLIBRARIES and noinst_LTLIBRARIES _directly_ inside the conditional (instead of using intermediate variables), but that didn't help.
This is about the fourth attempt at constructing this logic; I need to _always_ build these libraries, but only install them if the user asked them to be built shared (for a static build, they will be subsumed into the main binary and don't need to be installed). Am I missing something? This seems to be a valid thing to try, but I can't get automake to accept it.
