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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:39:14 +0200
From: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
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Subject: Re: How to install-libLTLIBRARIES dll to bin?
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Den 2009-07-28 08:10 skrev Reini Urban:
> I have an issue with properly autotooled + libtoolized shared libraries
> where the resulting dll should end up in bindir instead of libdir.
> 
> Can we cygwin-spezialize that either in automake or libtool?
> The --mode=install $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) looks like a job for automake
> but only libtool knows about the .dll
> in contrast to the .dll.a .la and .a
> Maybe libtool --mode=install can outsmart $libdir in the dll case.
> Or better automake can check for the dll and install this into bindir.

Automake does not "know" that it is a dll, it only sees a libtool
library (.la), and I think "libtool --mode=install" is supposed to
outsmart $libdir, by adding ../bin to the end of the directory
part of the path (i.e. copy the dll to $DESTDIR)$(libdir)/../bin
in this case).

I.e. if the dll does not end up in $libdir/../bin you need to find
out why, perhaps because the dll was linked with
"libtool ... -module ..." (in which case the outsmarting code
isn't activated and ../bin isn't added).

> Typical segment:
> 
> 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

That snippet looks correct, it is libtool that "knows" that the
dll is supposed to end up in $libdir/../bin

Cheers,
Peter

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