Re: Test support for automake

[NightStrike]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Daily, Jeff A <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: address@hidden address@hidden On Behalf Of Ralf Hemmecke address@hidden
>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:18 AM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Test support for automake
>>
>> I have a non-recursive Makefile.am with which I build a library foo. I
>> list all my tests (quite a lot) in check_PROGRAMS.
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>> All those tests should (of course) get libfoo.la as LDADD, but how
>> exactly do I do that _without_ doing a per-target *_LDADD specification.
>> Per target specification sounds like a lot of redundancy since all my
>> _LDADD specification would just be libfoo.la.
>> I'd like to add libfoo.la in only _one_ place.
>>
>> Ralf
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> Use the LDADD variable.  It's similar to the AM_* variables e.g. AM_LDFLAGS, 
> AM_CPPFLAGS.  All programs use LDADD for linking unless it is overridden by a 
> maude_LDADD per-target variable.
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> See http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Linking
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> Jeff
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It sounds like this is a good use case for support of check_LDADD,
which of course is going to imply a request for generic x_Y support,
where x is any prefix (bin, lib, etc) and Y is any suffix (cflags,
etc).