On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi James, > > * James Laird wrote on Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:40:16PM CEST: > > > > Since all of the tests include the main library (using LDADD), they all > > depend on that library. Thus, when the main library is changed, all of > > the tests must be recompiled. > > > > It would be nice if, when the library is configured as a shared library, > > the tests only needed to re-link rather than being completely recompiled. > > I can't figure out a way to do this short of editing automake itself. > > Any ideas? > > Recompilation should not happen. Show the Makefile.am snippet or a > pointer to the source which exhibits this problem with a way to > reproduce it. Sure there is not also a changed header file which is > included (maybe implicitly) by the test code? > > Cheers, > Ralf
You're right; the problem was that a static convenience library that dependend on the shared library was getting thrown into the mix, so relinking needed to happen. If I still have trouble after linking against only shared libraries I'll write back. :) Thanks, James
