Re: Relocatable .la files?

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:

> * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:32:13PM CET:
> > Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> > >* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:35:43PM CET:
> > >>
> > >>what's the right why of distributing binary packages that are relocatable?
> > >
> > >With shared libraries: in general, that is not possible portably.
> [...]
> > Alright I knew that, in that case, let's assume I only use static libraries
> > on
> > Linux if that helps. What is The Recommended Way of distributing relocatable
> > binaries (actually relocatable libraries in this case) ?
>
> I can offer this link:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2003-03/msg00020.html

Thank you, that's a very valuable one.

> and for .la files I could probably hack up a sed script that works for
> you (but not for every conceivable case).  I don't have enough
> experience with either to call it The Recommended Way.  ;-)

Thanks but I can do that myself, I just wanted to be aware of some 
common way to
address this issue.

> > >This, however, looks like a bug somewhere, iff libjpeg was built during
> > >the build.
> >
> > You made an important point "iff libjpeg was built". No, it wasn't.
> > Actually I ran svn up, ran configure again to set the prefix and ran
> > make. Several things were recompiled, but not libjpeg. That's a bit
> > unexpected but I can guess why this might not be seen as a bug in
> > itself.
>
> Probably not.  Well, at least currently automake doesn't place an
> explicit dependency of libraries on either their Makefile or
> config.status (either one would help you).  So you'd have to force
> rebuilding the library yourself.

Any reason why this dependency isn't provided by automake? (I'm just curious).

> In case 'make clean && make' is too expensive, this cleans only libtool
> libraries, fairly portably, in a top build directory:
>  find . -name \*.la | xargs ./libtool --mode=clean rm -f

Thanks for the hint.

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