Re: Passing options to libtool from within a GNU Autotools project.

[Robert Boehne]

Craig,

Just add it to LDFLAGS and it will get added to the link line.

If you're building a libtool library:

libname_la_LDFLAGS = -preserve-dup-deps

or a program

prgname_LDFLAGS = -preserve-dup-deps

On 11/02/12 08:00, Craig Sanders wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Does anybody know how to pass additional options to libtool from within a
> GNU Autotools project? I need to pass the ;
>
>    --preserve-dup-deps
>
> option to libtool from within my Autotools project. I'm not sure if I need
> to specify this option within my configure.ac file, if it should be
> specified when I invoke the generated configure script, or how I should
> otherwise go about it. I'd like to think that I can specify this libtool
> option from within my configure.ac file, thus relieving any potential users
> of my package from having to specify this option when they invoke the
> generated configure script.
>
> If anyone can help me out with this matter then it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> _