Hello, I apologize if this has been answered somewhere. Ive read the book and searched the archives.
My situation is this: Im porting a large code-base from windows to linux, and attempting to use autotools to do so. The code in SVN is essentially one big tree of somewhat related modules -- lets call them foo, bar, etc (Projects under MS VS). I need to produce 3 dynamic libraries that can be built from those modules -- lets call them A.so, B.so, and C.so (Solutions under VS). They depend on a non-overlapping, non-disjoint set of the source code modules in the directory. Directories for A, B, and C also contain .cpp files and appear in the same parent directory as foo, bar, etc. Currently I have all directories building respective "foo.la"s -- including A.la, B.la, and C.la, and have them installing correctly. Problems: - I dont need the foo,bar,etc constituent libraries, I just need A,B,C libraries, which means I have to manually delete them from the install location afterwords - I would like to be able to type "Make A" from the parent directory, and have the build system figure out which among foo,bar,etc libraries are needed by A and build them in the manner you would expect - I would like to accomplish this with a minimum of messing with the file hierarchy. Since Visual Studio can manage this feat, Im hoping its not above autotools! What do you recommend great wizards of autotoolry? Cheers,
