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tenspd137
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 Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:11 am Post subject: Subsume external project into my autotools project [solved] |
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Hi all,
I can't seem to find a good answer to this anywhere. I have a project where I want to use other libraries, say libjpeg-turbo. Instead of looking for it on the users system, I would like to put the source into my project - so the tree would look like
project-----configure.ac, Makefile.am
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external------libjpeg-turbo
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src-----Makefile.am, my project sources
How would I tell my project to build libjpeg-turbo - ie run it's configure scripts, etc?
So far, I made a small test.
toplevel config.ac:
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AC_INIT(test, 1.0)
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile)
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Toplevel Makefile.am
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SUBDIRS = extern/libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1 src
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src Makefile.am
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bin_PROGRAMS = test
test_SOURCES = main.cpp
test_LDADD = $(top_srcdir)/external/libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1/libjpeg.la
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Everything I have seen (which hasn't had any examples) suggests if I set it up like this it would work. Basically, I would like it to also build the libjpeg-turbo source - how do I get it to run the configure script from my top level?
Thanks for any help!
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Found it - AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS - hard to find what you are looking for when you don't know what it is called.
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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Fair warning - package distributors discourage bundling or sometimes outright ban it. If you insist on bundling a version of some other package, please include a configure option to use the system copy instead. |
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tenspd137
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for the late reply - thank you. This is just for a research project at work where we want to be sure we are linking against the same libraries - it isn't something to be redistributed to the outside world, but I do plan on adding options to do as you suggest as I learn autotools.
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