> From: automake-bounces+jeff.daily=pnl....@gnu.org > [automake-bounces+jeff.daily=pnl....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Hemmecke > [hemme...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:18 AM > To: automake@gnu.org > Subject: Test support for automake > > I have a non-recursive Makefile.am with which I build a library foo. I > list all my tests (quite a lot) in check_PROGRAMS. > > All those tests should (of course) get libfoo.la as LDADD, but how > exactly do I do that _without_ doing a per-target *_LDADD specification. > Per target specification sounds like a lot of redundancy since all my > _LDADD specification would just be libfoo.la. > I'd like to add libfoo.la in only _one_ place. > > Ralf
Use the LDADD variable. It's similar to the AM_* variables e.g. AM_LDFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS. All programs use LDADD for linking unless it is overridden by a maude_LDADD per-target variable. See http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Linking Jeff
