Several recent Automake improvements may influence the preferred way to incorporate libltdl support:
* Support for source files and targets in subdirectories. * Ability to avoid make recursion (related to above). * Makefile includes.
As of today, the main package I support uses a non-recursive Automake build and uses Automake includes. The libltld used is an older one with just a few source files. Rather than building libltdl as a "convenience" library the libltdl source files are simply incorporated into the package's main library. If libltdl is to be installed, then it is built and used as a normal library.
Development libltdl now has a "complicated" Makefile.am which is using source files in subdirectories, and libltdl now includes quite a few source files rather than just two files.
It seems a shame that non-recursive packages must become recursive in order to build libltdl. Using Automake includes, Automake conditionals, and well-defined conventions, libltdl's Makefile.am could simply be included into the package's own Makefile.am. This would allow libltdl targets to be built without any additional recursion, and without creating another Makefile.in.
Thoughts?
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