On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:49:04AM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > It would be great to have `LT_LDFLAGS = -module', rather than 15 lines of > `foo_LDFLAGS = -module' in a future m4 Makefile.am :-)
Regarding M4: last time I checked you had a directory dedicated to modules. Why don't you simply use AM_LDFLAGS = -module in this directory? More generally I think adding an LT_LDFLAGS variable is not a solution, because some day Bob will come and say "Now I need a global LDFLAGS variable for standard libtool libraries, and another different LDFLAGS for libtool modules; not being able to distinguish these two sets of libraries is an extremely annoying (magnitude 42 on Richter's scale) misfeature of Automake." Maybe we need a way to apply flags to groups of files, and tying flags to dir_PRIMARY variables (as in bin_PROGRAMS_LDFLAGS) would be an option.
