Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > And for executables, an *_LDADD variable exists, but the automake doc says > > the opposite of what you say: > > > > `PROG_LDADD' is inappropriate for passing program-specific linker > > flags (except for `-l', `-L', `-dlopen' and `-dlpreopen'). So, use the > > `PROG_LDFLAGS' variable for this purpose. > > In what way is this opposite to my statement? -l is listed as exception > in parentheses.
The options that I need to put there (from $(LTLIBICONV) or $(LIBICONV) etc.) can contain -L, -l, and -rpath / -Wl,-rpath options. The latter should not be added to PROG_LDADD, says the automake doc. So we must add them to PROG_LDFLAGS. It's not only the lib-link.m4 macros which produce -L, -l, -rpath options together. pkgconfig descriptions (its 'Libs:' field) and xyz-config scripts do the same (at least for -L and -l). Therefore it is unrealistic to ask people to put the -L options into one variable and the -l options into another variable. Bruno
