How to configure LIBOBJS

[Juliano Ravasi Ferraz]

Hi,

I'm experiencing some problems setting up Automake to use some 
replacement files through AC_LIBOBJ macro, and I couldn't realize how to 
do it. The automake manual didn't help.

I've added AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR([lib]) to configure.ac, and added the 
needed files to lib/. Automake found them and added all to distribution 
except for some needed header files that I had to list under noinst_HEADERS.

The problem is that when I add @LIBOBJS@ to _LIBADD and _LDADD rules in 
the Makefile.am's of src/ and util/ directories, automake fails with 
missing files in those directories, the same files that are in the lib/ 
directory (automake bug?).

I don't know what to do now. It is a bit stupid to have identical copies 
of all lib/ files in src/ and util/ directories, and have them compiled 
many times. I thought about creating a libcompat.a in lib/ and then link 
it to the libraries and binaries of src/ and util/, but I cannot 
(portably) link a static library against a shared library.

Another idea was finding a way to prepend ../lib/ to each value of 
@LIBOBJS@ for src/Makefile.am and util/Makefile.am, but I don't know of 
automake internals and didn't figure how to do that.

What can I do now? Am I missing something too obvious?

Thanks for any help.

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