Nicolas Bock <nicolasb...@gmail.com> writes: > libsomething_la_CPPFLAGS = -I../../ ... > the naming changed from a.F90 -> libsomething_la-a.lo to a.F90 -> > a.lo. Very strange.
It's an annoying, but documented, effect of using per-library CFLAGS: when you do that, automake decides that it must generate unique object files for that library, and so uses the library name as a prefix for the object file. This is presumably because it's _possible_ -- although I think very rare -- to use the same source file in multiple libraries, and with per-library flags, the resulting object files may actually differ (whereas without per-library flags, they'd be the same). [I wish automake would only use the prefixes in cases where a source file is _actually_ used in multiple libraries; since I think it almost never happens that people actually do this, that would mean almost no object files would use the prefix. Maybe that's annoying to implement though...] You _can_ change the name of the prefix used, by setting the "SHORTNAME" attribute, e.g. libbozo_la_SHORTNAME = bozo -miles -- Once, adj. Enough.
