Re: seeking advice for a modular build system

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Do you know of an example of the automake/libtool stuff that you are  
thinking of?

.hc

On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:29 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> This shouldn't be much trouble.  To enable or disable libraries on  
> the command line you would probably use an Automake conditional,  
> and AC_ARG_WITH to turn it on or off.
>
> Automake & Libtool together will create generic LDFLAGS as well as  
> library-specific ones automatically.
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <address@hidden>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am starting the process of creating an autotools build system for
> > Pd-extended, a large distro of a program called Pure Data and many
> > libraries.  Pure Data is a realtime visual programming language for
> > sound, video, etc.  Over the years, there have been quite a few
> > libraries written for it.  Currently, I have a big hacked Makefile
> > that builds all of the libraries.  I would like to replace this with
> > an autotools system.
> >
> > One thing that I would love to have is flags to ./configure to  
> > enable/
> > disable the inclusion of different libraries.  The libraries are
> > currently in subdirs named with the library name.  I am wondering how
> > to best to that with autotools.
> >
> > Another thing, each of the libraries are made up of
> > one .so/.dylib/.dll for each objectclass.  I am wondering what the
> > best method for having separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for each library.
> > I want to do that in case different libraries depend on different
> > versions of the same lib.  Perhaps I need some kind of recursive ./
> > configure system.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > .hc
> >
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