Re: Not installing local library.

[Edward Tomasz Napierala]

On 0610T1755, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I have a program thad depends on a library.  I want to achieve
> > the following: if the library is already installed, than use it,
> > linking dynamically.  If it's not installed, then build it (it's
> > included in the program tarball) and link against it statically.
> > It pretty much works, except that in the latter case 'make install'
> > in program source directory installs the library too, and I don't
> > want that to happen - I want it to install only the main program,
> > and not the library and its headers.  How to do that?
> 
> Does this help?
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/10512/focus=10515>
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/9363/focus=9365>

Well, I've already read that and that's why I have most of this thing
working.  But it doesn't answer the last missing part - how to tell
autotools that contents of libsmf/ are not to be installed in 'make
install'.

As for the 'why' question in the latter post - for me, it's because I
don't want to force users to install additional dependency, and at the
same time don't want to create conflict with that dependancy should it
be installed later.

> >         SMF_LIBS="../libsmf/src/.libs/libsmf.a"
> 
> Strictly speaking, it could be .libs or _libs (but systems where .libs
> doesn't work are dying out).  Anyway, you shouldn't have to know.  The
> rest is answered in the threads above.

In other words, I should be using '.la' file instead of '.a' directly?

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