Re: Disable --whole-archive when using convenience archives

[Alon Bar-Lev]

Thank you for quick response (as usual... :) )

I had to add -prefer-pic to CFLAGS in order it to work properly... :)

Wow... this is an ugly workaround... Any reason why a simple switch to
"libtool --mode=link" is not supported? Is it the first time someone
needs this?

Thanks,
Alon.

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AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.10
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4

noinst_LTLIBRARIES = lib1.la
lib_LTLIBRARIES = module.la

lib1_la_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -prefer-pic
lib1_la_SOURCES = a.c b.c
lib1_la_LDFLAGS = -rpath $(libdir) -static

module_la_SOURCES = m.c
module_la_LIBADD = lib1.la
module_la_LDFLAGS = -avoid-version -module -shared -no-undefined

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Alon,
>
> * Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:08:03PM CET:
> > I have some convenience archives linked against several modules.
> >
> > I wish only required objects to be included in modules.
>
> Then make the convenience archives not be convenience archives any
> longer, i.e., make them libtool libraries.
>
> You can make them "normal" libtool libraries with either
>  foo_LTLIBRARIES = libbar.la
>
> but then they will be installed in $(foodir) ('foo' often being 'lib').
> If you don't want that, then you can get automake to not install them,
> but libtool still treat them as normal libraries with
>  noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libbar.la
>  libbar_la_LDFLAGS = -rpath /some/dir
>
> In either case, they may end up being shared libraries (or both), so if
> you don't want that, add -static to libbar_la_LDFLAGS.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf