Hello Daniel, * Daniel Neuberger wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:31:25PM CEST: > Is there a way to translate this: > > libfoo_la_LIBADD = $(top_builddir)/some/path/libfoobar.la > > to this: > > libfoo_la_LIBADD = some/path/libfoobar.la > > with Automake?
Unforteunately not; neither make, nor automake have good ways to canonicalize paths (with the exception that GNU make will know that FILE and ./FILE are identical for non-absolute FILE). Why do you ever need to use the former? (It can come in handy in included Makefile.am fragments.) The important bits are: however you specify a file in one Makefile.am, you should always do it the same way, or things may go wrong. So a library built from the same Makefile.am should have a relative name; but arguably, you could also write, e.g., lib_LTLIBRARIES = ./libfoo.la __libfoo_la_SOURCES = ... if you really want to make your life hard; I'd always suggest lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la libfoo_la_SOURCES = ... and using plain 'libfoo.la' in libbar_la_LIBADD. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
