I am using Automake 1.8 with libtool. Automake is doing a good job at building libraries in a correct order based on dependencies (or I could just be lucky) but 'make install' is not paying any attention to library dependencies. It appears that libraries are installed in the same order as specified by lib_LTLIBRARIES. If the ordering of lib_LTLIBRARIES does not jive with the library dependency order, then libtool fails to re-link the library because some libraries it depends are not installed yet. Even worse, it may appear that installation is successful, but some of the libraries are accidentally linked with older versions of the libraries which were already installed.
It seems to me that Automake should compute an optimum library installation order based on the specified libtool library (.la) dependencies. This would help ensure that installation errors do not occur due to some hap-hazard lib_LTLIBRARIES list order (e.g. they could be in alphabetical order). Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen