Re: Yet another sub-directories question

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Roberto" == Roberto Cavada <address@hidden> writes:

 Roberto> Hi all list's members, 
 Roberto> I've been trying to solve some problems with Automake these days, 
 Roberto> since I am new to autotools. 
[...]
 Roberto> top contains one Makefile.am and all bootstrap generated files. 
 Roberto> src contains the Makefile.am that builds the library. 

 Roberto> I know (from previous posts about this issue) that src
 Roberto> can refer to packages source directly.  The problem is
 Roberto> that I want to keep knowledge of the content of a
 Roberto> given package as much local as possible. 'src' knows
 Roberto> the packages it contains, but does know nothing about
 Roberto> what the packages contain.  The same for each package.

The usual setup is to have one Makefile.am per subdirectory,
build many nodist_LTLIBRARIES in child-packages, and gather them
in parent packages.

[src/Makefile.am]

SUBDIRS = sub1 sub2 ...
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libtop.la
libtop_la_SOURCES =
libtop_la_LIBADD = \
  sub1/libsub1.la \
  sub2/libsub2.la \
  ...

[src/sub1/Makefile.am]

noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libsub1.la
libsub1_la_SOURCES = ...


[src/sub2/Makefile.am]   (with nested packages)

SUBDIRS = sub2.1 sub2.2 ...
noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libsub2.la
libsub2_la_SOURCES =
libsub2_la_LIBADD = \
  sub2.1/libsub1.2.la \
  sub2.2/libsub2.2.la \
  ...

etc.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz