Re: Documentation of lib$package.a?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 30 Jan 2013, at 21:14, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

> In gnulib.pdf, I can't find any mention of the fact that the library is (no 
> longer?) called libgnu.a, but lib$package.a (if you use bootstrap), and when 
> I run ./bootstrap I don't get any message about adding it to relevant *LDADD 
> variables. Am I missing something?

Are you using the bootstrap script from gnulib (which I didn't check), or my 
rewrite from Libtool, Zile, luaposix et el? There is nothing in the code for 
gnulib-tool that would change the default name of the gnulib library from 
libgnu.a, short of passing --lib=lib$package to it at invocation time.

Similarly there is no code in bootstrap rewrite to override the default setting 
of --lib, save setting gnulib_name=lib$package in bootstrap.conf. Bootstrap 
rewrite is extremely configurable, so maybe you are overwriting setting 
gnulib_name somehow from bootstrap.conf?

Quickly testing latest gnulib-tool, it already shows a reminder to set _LDADD  
or _LDFLAGS appropriately. It seems your environment is not working properly.

HTH,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)