Hi Reuben,
> In the following text, describing how to use multiple gnulib installations:
>
> Correspondingly for the programs you will have to add something like
> this:
>
> ...
> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/gnulib -I$(top_builddir)/src/gnulib
> ...
> LIBADD = $(top_builddir)/src/gnulib/libgnutools.la
>
> should LIBADD be LDADD, since we're talking here about building a program,
> not a library?
Right. Thanks for the report. Fixed:
2021-04-12 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
doc: Fix confusion between LIBADD and LDADD.
Reported by Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-04/msg00102.html>.
* doc/gnulib-tool.texi (Multiple instances): For programs, use LDADD,
not LIBADD.
diff --git a/doc/gnulib-tool.texi b/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
index 97881f1..465bb42 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ this:
...
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/gnulib -I$(top_builddir)/src/gnulib
...
-LIBADD = $(top_builddir)/src/gnulib/libgnutools.la
+LDADD = $(top_builddir)/src/gnulib/libgnutools.la
...
@end example
