Re: seeking advice for a modular build system

[Robert Boehne]

There are probably too many to name, but what I played with most 
recently was
FreeTDS on SourceForge which does most of these things.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Do you know of an example of the automake/libtool stuff that you are 
> thinking of?
>
> .hc
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> 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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