Re: using .la or .a when linking an executable ?

2008-09-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 01:04:44PM CEST: > eet_LDADD = $(top_builddir)/src/lib/libeet.la > > Hence when I call objdump -p on my eet binary, i get: > > NEEDED libeet.so.1 > NEEDED libz.so.1 > NEEDED libjpeg.so.62 > > But a friend told me tha

using .la or .a when linking an executable ?

2008-09-28 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, we have a library called libeet and an binary called eet. libeet depends on libjpeg and zlib., so in the file libeet.la, the field dependency_libs is set to "-lz /usr/lib/libjpeg.la" Now, to create the binary eet, in my Makefile.am, i have: eet_LDADD = $(top_builddir)/src/lib/libeet.la