[Libvir] using gnulib: starting with the physmem and getaddrinfo modules

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Dec 5 10:32:01 UTC 2007


"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> -libvirtd_LDADD = ../src/libvirt.la
>>> +libvirtd_LDADD = ../src/libvirt.la ../lib/libgnu.la
>>
>> Shouldn't we be using LIBOBJS (automake feature) here?  I kind of
>> thought this was how gnulib worked, and it was what I used for the
>> previous getaddrinfo implementation.
>
> In fact, doesn't this mean there'll be another shared library built
> (and even worse, one just called "gnu")?

It won't be installed.
It's what automake documentation calls a convenience library.




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