Hi! I have some doubts on why libtool does not add a libtool archive to the list of dependencies of a convenience library. Here is how it is invoked in my project:
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I../../libevent/include -I../libevent/include -g -O2 -fdiagnostics-show-option -std=gnu99 -pipe -Wall -W -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wcast-align -Winline -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -o liblldpd.la liblldpd_la-frame.lo liblldpd_la-lldpd.lo liblldpd_la-lldp.lo liblldpd_la-cdp.lo liblldpd_la-sonmp.lo liblldpd_la-edp.lo liblldpd_la-interfaces.lo liblldpd_la-client.lo liblldpd_la-priv.lo liblldpd_la-privsep_fdpass.lo liblldpd_la-dmi.lo liblldpd_la-event.lo libcommon.la ../libevent/libevent.la libcommon.la is a convenience library. ../libevent/libevent.la is not (it has a libdir defined). dependency_libs for libevent.la is "-lrt". There is nothing for libcommon.la. liblldpd.la will get "-lrt" as dependency_libs. I would expect that either libevent.la will be put in dependency_libs (like if it was a dynamic library) or to be incorporated into liblldpd.la (like if it was a convenience library). Since I get nothing, I will need to add it to the linking phase of a real object later. If you want to see the real example: git clone git://github.com/vincentbernat/lldpd.git cd lldpd git checkout 0.6.0 ./autogen.sh You need to try without libevent 2.x installed on your system so that it uses the embedded copy. It works because I have also added the libtool archive in LDFLAGS for the final binary. Thanks for any insight! -- Vincent Bernat ☯ http://vincent.bernat.im Don't comment bad code - rewrite it. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
