Hi, I hope you can help me. I'm banging my head against the wall here doing something that I think should be extremely simple, but just cannot get Automake/Autoconf/libtool to do it the way I want it.
If I have the following files: main1.c main2.c modules/mod1.c modules/mod2.c and I want a Makefile.am in the top-level source directory that compiles main1.c and main2.c into one library (say libmain.la) and mod1.c and mod2.c into libmod.la in the modules directory. Simple request huh? But in *one* Makefile.am. How do I do it? This doesn't do the job: lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmain.la modules/libmod.la libmain_la_SOURCES = main1.c main2.c libmod_la_SOURCES = modules/mod1.c modules/mod2.c libtool doesn't like directory names in the lib_LTLIBRARIES variable. But if I go ... lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmain.la libmod.la ...then everything gets built in the top-level directory and I don't want that. Can anyone help? My only work-around at present is to have a separate Makefile in the modules sub-directory, but that won't work anymore because I'm building a binary in the top-level Makefile that depends on both earlier libraries, while libmod also depends on libmain, i.e. binary -> depends on modules/libmod.la and libmain.la modules/libmod.la -> depends on libmain.la If I use separate Makefiles, I'm going to need three to get around the dependencies and to get the build order right, and that's going to get ugly. Please help! Thanks in advance, Mark.
