* Peter Johansson wrote on Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:19:30AM CET: > John Wohlbier wrote: >> >> Does automake allow for automatically building lib2 when make is typed >> within lib1? If so, how is it done? If not, is this an unreasonable thing to >> expect the dependencies to handle? >> > I see two solutions to this. > > 1) Move directory lib2 to be a SUBDIR of lib1 > > 2) or add the following in lib2/Makefile.am [...]
3) Use a nonrecursive makefile setup; add lib2/lib2name.la to lib1_lib1name_la_LIBADD if that is what you need. Of course then you cannot type 'make' in either lib[12], but you could put helper makefiles there to "cd .. && $(MAKE) ...".
