Re: Libtool -release and static libraries.

[Brendon Costa]

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> > Sorry, that makes no sense : the substitutions are done at
configure time,
> > Automake is run earlier and will never know their values.
> >
>> >> However in the automake files I am unable to use these variables for
>> >> substitution on the left side of the = sign. I.e:
>> >>
>> >> address@hidden@.la
>> >>
>> >>
address@hidden@_la_CPPFLAGS=-I$(top_builddir)/src
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Fails to work.
> >
> > Take the string "address@hidden@.la" (that's what
> > Automake reads).  To canonize it, replace characters that are neither
> > alphanumeric nor strudels by underscores.  That gives
> > "address@hidden@_la".  So your second variable should
> > be "address@hidden@_la_CPPFLAGS".
> >

I am still very new to using automake. I can see where I went wrong
with the automake "code" above now, thanks for the pointer. I have
been using a jam and autoconf build system based on the build
environment used for the open source 3D engine Crystal Space, but now
I have decided to try using automake so forgive my mistakes in the
usage of automake.


Anyhow, regardless of whether or not how I was attempting to achieve
library renaming is valid or not, I still have the same problem in
that I wish to have the library re-named from:

libatcppunit.la

to

libatcppunit-1.0.6.la

without having to edit all the Makefile.am files every time I change
the package version. If libtool -release flag also renamed static
libraries as well as dynamic ones, then I could do this simply using:

lib_LTLIBRARIES=libatcppunit.la

address@hidden@ -I$(top_builddir)/src
address@hidden@ -release $(PACKAGE_VERSION)
address@hidden@


which is what I thought the purpose of the -release flag was for. I
would also like to have it install atcppunit.la as a symlink to
atcppunit-1.0.6.la upon installation (Which I don't know how I would
achieve by just changing the name of the library to a versioned name
in the automake file). Using this libtool -release method I would not
have to edit the Makefile.am each time I change the library version
and I assume the the symlink would be generated as well.


Are there any comments on the rest of my last email ignoring my
erroneous usage of automake?


Thanks again,
Brendon.

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