On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Bob, > > * Bob Rossi wrote on Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:44:59PM CET: > > > > OK, from this suggestion, I'm going to change all _LDADD lines from > > -lfoo to $(top_builddir)/pathto/libfoo.a. > > > > I'll remove all _DEPENDENCIES completly. Does this sound like a correct > > change to you? > > Yes. > > > BTW, all the _DEPENDENCIES that I'm talking about are > > libraries that are built from my own project, but not necessarily in the > > same Makefile. > > OK. You will have to make sure these libraries exist and are up to > date, when they are needed. Typically by recursing to that other > Makefile earlier (i.e., by way of SUBDIRS ordering). > > For libraries built from the same Makefile, please note that typically, > make implementations are not smart enough to discover that > $(top_builddir)/sub/libfoo.la (with top_builddir = ..) > ./libfoo.la > libfoo.la > > all refer to the same file, even if they are the same file. So if you > have a rule for the latter, but depend upon one of the former two, > things can break. GNU make identifies the latter two.
Thanks very much. Yes I do make sure thing are built in the correct order with SUBDIRS. I wonder if this will really fix the 'parallel make bug' that someone reported about CGDB. Thanks, Bob Rossi
