Alexandre> Anyway, on platforms that actually require relinking, this
Alexandre> problem remains, and I see no way to overcome it other than
Alexandre> arranging for automake to install libraries before
Alexandre> executables, as you suggest. This shouldn't be a big
Alexandre> problem, anyway.
Nope.
Please submit an automake PR.
Alexandre> A bigger problem could show up if two libraries in the same
Alexandre> directory, one dependent on the other, are installed
Alexandre> concurrently. If relinking is needed for the dependent
Alexandre> library, we have a problem. It appears to me that user
Alexandre> will have to live without `make -j install', in this case.
Wouldn't automake already know about the library dependency in order
to build them in the right order? Maybe we could exploit this
information at install time (though it is hard to see how).
Tom