Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Andre Stechert
On Oct 4, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote: However the problem remains that Im at a bit of a loss how to ship a shared .SO library easily. If I build on my machine (or a set of supported build machines) then the build will link to my prefix (lets say /usr/lib) and the end user has no choi

Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread David Fang
> I think you're confusing the idea of a build system for portable > software (something the autotools suite can help with) and an > installer (or package if you're installing onto a system that has a > package manager). From a Windows perspective, it's the same as the > difference between Visual

Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 20:11 -0700, Andre Stechert wrote: > Hi, > > I think you're confusing the idea of a build system for portable > software > (something the autotools suite can help with) and an installer (or > package > if you're installing onto a system that has a package manager). From

Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Andre Stechert
Hi, I think you're confusing the idea of a build system for portable software (something the autotools suite can help with) and an installer (or package if you're installing onto a system that has a package manager). From a Windows perspective, it's the same as the difference between Visual

autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Ryan McDougall
Hello, First of all, Im only looking for serious answers, and I dont want to start any flamewars, so Ill start out by saying that quite likely the only problem here is my lack of knowledge of autotools, and the other the issues involved. Please correct me at any point you disagree with. After s

Re: Dependence on object files listed in link script

2006-10-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:59:40AM +0800, Tzu-Chien Chiu wrote: > Makefile.am > bin_PROGRAMS = bar > bar_LDADD = @top_builddir@/xyz.la > bar_DEPENDENCIES = $(bar_LDADD) @many_objs@ a few nits first: all AC_SUBSTed variables are available as make variables, so you can use $(top_builddir) a