On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ed Sweetman wrote:
I really dont see why libtool generates .a files when they're not going to be installed. Since libtool knows the list of objects related to a ".a" lib, the generation of the .a is a waste of disk space and time. Is it possible
One reason to do this is because since libtool is based on shell scripts, it must still work within command line limits. It is quite easy for even the list of object files in one library to exceed command line limits, even if the prefixing subdirectory path is not included.
to have my makefile retrieve a list of the objects in a given libtool library so that i can just use that variable in the LDADD of the target? Or is there a way to tell libtool to link a .la such that it directly links the .o's associated with it directly to the executable and skips the intermediate and useless generation of the .a file?
An avenue you can look at is the "non recursive make". Automake supports this. It is perhaps not for everyone, but it allows you to avoid the need for convenience libraries entirely and since make knows all of the dependencies, there is a minimum of rebuilding for each change.
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