[lug] [OT] Automake question ...

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Ralf" == rm  <rm at fabula.de> writes:

Ralf> i'm currently working on converting a project (mod-guile)
Ralf> to an auto-tools managed codebase. Somehow i can't find
Ralf> a way to have automake accept a shared object (.so) as my
Ralf> primary build target. I know that i can tell it to build
Ralf> a libtool shared library (*.la or *.lo) and that i can
Ralf> grab the *.so object from libtool's .libs directory but this
Ralf> looks somehow wrong to me ;-) Any hints, documentation pointers
Ralf> etc. from the gurus?

Automake has always assumed that there is just one way to build a .so:
use libtool.  You could simply use libtool with automake in the
standard way, and let the *.la files, etc, be installed.  Things
should still work; Apache ought to ignore the extra files.


You can also hack things by doing something like:

    mybindir = $(libdir)
    mybin_PROGRAMS = libfoo.so
    libfoo_so_SOURCES = ...
    AM_CFLAGS = -fPIC

... and whatever other magic you find you need (probably some
link-time stuff).  Of course, once you try to make this portable
you'll be reinventing libtool.  There may be other quirks with this
approach.

Tom