Re: Quick question on optional builds with automake

[Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>]

Hi Kent,

Kent Mein <mein@cs.umn.edu> writes:

> Hi I'm working on converting blender (www.blender.org)
> To automake/autoconf etc...
>
> I have the first part mostly working (producing 1 binary)
> The next stage I'd like to do is get it to
> build a second binary only when I type make blenderplayer
>
> I'd also like to do a make webplugin (which will create
> a shared library)
>
> Any pointers on how to do this?
>>From reading the docs I was guessing 
> bin_PROGRAMS = blender
> extra_PROGRAMS = blenderplayer
> extra_LTLIBRARIES = blenderplugin.la

That is one way to go about it.  However, you'll not be able to
install these programs/plugins using the normal 'make install'.

So, depending on what you want to do, it may make more sense to
change your 'configure.in' and 'Makefile.am' to support

  --enable-blenderplayer
  --enable-webplugin

Then, the standard 'make && make check && make install' will do the
right thing.

- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu