Re: automake/376: Controlling the order of installation

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Philip" == Philip Willoughby <address@hidden> writes:

 Philip> I have:
 Philip> lib_LTLIBRARIES=libaptttest.la
 Philip> libaptttest_la_SOURCES=aptt/test/test.c
 Philip> libaptttest_la_LIBADD=libapttlog.la @LTLIBINTL@

 Philip> pkglib_LTLIBRARIES=libapttlog.la
 Philip> libapttlog_la_SOURCES=aptt/log/log.c
 Philip> address@hidden@

 Philip> in a Makefile.am.  Unfortunately, automake does not recognise that
 Philip> libapttlog.la must be installed prior to the installation of
 Philip> libaptttest.la.

 Philip> Is there a way to hint to automake that the order is
 Philip> important without moving to recursive make?

Maybe you could try using the same dir-prefix for both libraries.

Something like

 nobase_lib_LTLIBRARIES = yourpkg/libapttlog.la libaptttest.la
 libaptttest_la_SOURCES = aptt/test/test.c
 libaptttest_la_LIBADD = libapttlog.la @LTLIBINTL@
 yourpkg_libapttlog_la_SOURCES = aptt/log/log.c
 yourpkg_libapttlog_la_LIBADD = @LIBLTDL@

then libraries should be installed in the order they appear in
nobase_lib_LTLIBRARIES.

 Philip> Alternatively, does anyone have a patch to
 Philip> automagically do the right thing?

Right now this seems hard.  I've submitted this as PR/376, so we
don't forget about it eventually.  Fortunatelly it's more
frequent that dependent libraries get installed in the same
directory.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz