1-gary-strip-target-suffix-from-default-source.patch [was Re:Default source file names]

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary at gnu dot org>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:02:04 -0700, "Kevin P. Fleming"
<kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com> said:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > with the simpler:
> > 
> > ~    pkglibexec_LTLIBRARIES = gnu.la  ..... traditional.la
> > ~    AM_LDFLAGS = -module
> > 
> > but unfortunately Automake wants to build `gnu.la' from `gnu.la.c', so the
> > repetitive sources declarations are necessary, unless I rename all my 
> > source
> > files.
> 
> This would help me out too, I thought of the same thing.

I dusted off my copy of Programming Perl and came up with the attached
patch.  I don't know whether stripping the lib prefix from {LT,}LIBRARIES
targets for a default source is also appropriate...

> The problem 
> though is that a library is a collection of objects, it's not really a 
> single object (even though we're both using them that way).

But so is a program if you look at it that way.  And `bin_PROGRAMS = foo'
is enough to build foo from foo.c, so it seems natural to have
`lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la' work similarly.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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