I understand from the docs that specifying prog_LDADD will override LDADD (and the same for prog_CPPFLAGS, ...)
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Linking.html If it is desired to merge prog_LDADD and LDADD, is there any recommended or preferred solution? I've tried LDADD = -lfoo LDADD += -lrt prog_LDADD = -lfoo $(LDADD) and it seems to work for me - if this is the way to go, could it be included in the manual page perhaps?