On Monday 2008-11-10 20:53, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>> for shared libraries, it is possible to use
>> myshared_so_LDFLAGS = -module
>> to tell automake not to warn about the missing "lib" prefix.
>> For static libraries however, something like that does not
>> work since there is no ld involved, and automake warns
>> about the missing lib prefix. Is there a flag I can use to
>> silence the warning anyway? I am only going to use the library
>> within the project itself anyway (noinst_LIBRARIES).
>
> Do you know for sure that the archiving tools on all the many systems your
> software might potentially run on will work as expected without the 'lib'
> prefix?
Well, I don't see why they should not be able to process
gcc/ld -o finalprogram xyz.o myshared.a
Note that I am not even trying to use -l, but the bare filename.
finalprogram_SOURCES = xyz.c
finalprogram_LDADD = myshared.a
