Thanks to all. The suggestion by Thomas won the day. May I say thanks and assure you that your suspicion is fact.
Thanks art _____ From: Thomas Martitz [mailto:ku...@rockbox.org] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 8:57 AM To: Bob Friesenhahn; Arthur Schwarz Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: LDADD doesn't work as expected The make target refers to a directory (trailing slash). I suspect the Makefile.am has a typo. Am 21. September 2015 17:21:46 MESZ, schrieb Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us>: On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Arthur Schwarz wrote: I'm trying to use LDADD to reference libgslip.a in another directory. After building libgslip.a with make, I issue a make check and get the message: *** No rule to make target '../libgslip/libgslip.a/', needed by 'SlipTest.exe'. Stop. The test directory is entered and the Makefile in the test directory is executed, so the path would seem to be correct but I am missing something. I have read Section 8.1.2 Linking the program and I think I'm following the example given, but alas, it just doesn't work. I have tried to use LDADD and prog_LDADD with the same effect. Did you mean to use LIBADD? It may be wise to construct full paths based on Automake-provided variables like $(top_builddir) rather than using relative paths. Bob
