Re: Problems installing dependant libraries

[Fredrick Meunier <fredm at anviloz dot com>]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the detailed response.

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that Automake does not have an overall
> coherent understanding of the library dependencies when libraries are
> built using a recursive build.  Without understanding the library
> dependencies, it is difficult to see how relinking would work.

In my case it is a non-recursive build with _LIBADD entries for all the 
inter-library dependencies, my problem boils down to installations being 
done in the order specified in lib_LTLIBRARIES, even if _LIBADD entries 
list dependencies that are violated by this ordering. As the entries for 
these lists are autogenerated in my project, I would prefer not having 
to hack the generators to mainain a particular order for the libraries 
as this is neccesarily brittle.

> So the solution is for someone to come up with a way that Automake can
> have a coherent understanding of library dependencies (which are
> already specified piecemeal in individual Makefile.am files).  One way
> to accomplish this may be to maintain a top-level file which records
> the order that libraries were linked during the build.

I have a single Makefile and _LIBADD references are used throughout to 
make library dependencies explicit, the autotools should also work in 
this case.

Fred