Re: libtool and libraries

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, v p wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie and trying to use the auto tools to build my project. I
am using libtool(with autoconf/automake) to build static as well as
shared libraries. When I do 'make' the libraries are created under
'src' directory in directory '.libs'. I want the make file( generated
using automake) to create/copy these libraries to 'lib' directory
under my project root. I don't want to use 'make install' for that.
What should I do??
install-my-libs:
        for library in $(lib_LTLIBRARIES) ; do \
          $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(INSTALL) $library  /usr/local/lib/$library ; \
        done
should work.  Then you can do 'make install-my-libs' to install just 
the libraries rather than 'make install'.

A more complete version can already be found as the 
'install-libLTLIBRARIES' target in Automake makefiles so you could just use

install-my-libs: install-libLTLIBRARIES
Here is the Automake version:
install-libLTLIBRARIES: $(lib_LTLIBRARIES)
        @$(NORMAL_INSTALL)
        test -z "$(libdir)" || $(mkdir_p) "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)"
        @list='$(lib_LTLIBRARIES)'; for p in $$list; do \
          if test -f $$p; then \
            f=$(am__strip_dir) \
            echo " $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(libLTLIBRARIES_INSTALL) 
$(INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG) '$$p' '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$f'"; \
            $(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(libLTLIBRARIES_INSTALL) $(INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG) "$$p" 
"$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$f"; \
          else :; fi; \
        done
Bob
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