Hi there I would like to somehow describe a Makefile.am file as:
libsocket_a_SOURCES=Socket.cpp Socket.hpp libconnection_a_SOURCES=Connection.cpp Connection.hpp libconnection_a_LIBADD=libsocket.a And then, if I have a sbin_PROGRAMS like sbin_PROGRAMS=prog1 prog1_SOURCES=... prog1_LDADD=libconnection.a automake should generate a makefile that has targets for libsocket.a and libconnection.a ONLY as needed. I mean this because if prog1 with it's LDADD will be compiled or not depends on automake conditionals and when it will be compiled the automake should automatically also create noinst_LIBRARIES for libconnection.a (because prog1 depends on that) and then on libsocket.a (because libconnection.a depends on that) but it SHOULD NOT try to build libconnection.a and/or libsocket.a if there is no need for them. Currently this could probably be implemented with additional conditionals like this: noinst_LIBRARIES= sbin_PROGRAMS= if BUILD_PROG1 sbin_PROGRAMS += prog1 prog1_SOURCES=... prog1_LDADD=libconnection.a need_libconnection=1 endif if need_libconnection noinst_LIBRARIES += libconnection.a libconnection_a_SOURCES=Connection.cpp Connection.hpp libconnection_a_LIBADD=libsocket.a need_libsocket=1 endif if need_libsocket noinst_LIBRARIES += libsocket.a libsocket_a_SOURCES=Socket.cpp Socket.hpp endif But this is very complex (and redundant as one has to specify dependencies in 2 places one with LIBADD/LDADD and the other with those variables to trigger the dependency targets), imagine that there are hundreds of small noinst libraries each with it's own dependency, thus one would need to make hundreds of conditionals like that. I would like to know if automake can do it automatically somehow (or maybe if someone knows of another build system that can). Thank you! -- Mihai RUSU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG : http://dizzy.roedu.net/dizzy-gpg.txt WWW: http://dizzy.roedu.net "Linux is obsolete" -- AST
