On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Daily, Jeff A <jeff.da...@pnl.gov> wrote: >> 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 > > > >
It sounds like this is a good use case for support of check_LDADD, which of course is going to imply a request for generic x_Y support, where x is any prefix (bin, lib, etc) and Y is any suffix (cflags, etc).
