Hi, Thanks Ralf, this worked brilliantly.
But now for some reason is broken and would welcome someone who has had more experience than me. The main issue is that I have redone the build sequence several times and I really cant work out what is wrong. I have re-autoscanned/automake..././configured and stripped it back to a single component to include, it gives the error as ------------------- Making all in . make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nick/libwhite' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `src/common/libcommon.la', needed by `libwhite.la'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nick/libwhite' ------------------------- if I go into src/common and hit make it builds fine and if I then go back to the top level and make again, it does produce the final lib. So the component build is fine and so is the remaining top level build. my top level makefile.am is ---------------------------------- SUBDIRS = . ./src/common/ lib_LTLIBRARIES = libwhite.la libwhite_la_SOURCES = ## yes, the previous line can be empty libwhite_la_LIBADD = src/common/libcommon.la -------------------------------- And my configure.in has lines of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([src/common]) AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/common/Makefile) Have you any ideas of what I can do to find out where the rule is that links the .la file to the component make file? Regards nick -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Nesting-and-final-linking---tp18828132p18866003.html Sent from the Gnu - Automake - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
