[Valgrind-developers] Automake question

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

Hi,

I have a question about automake.

The Memcheck and Addrcheck skins share some code, in two files.
These shared files are stored in the memcheck/ directory.  Previously, I
was having Addrcheck's ac_main.c #include the .c files directly.  But this
is kind of nasty.

So I want to change it so it simply links them in when vgskin_addrcheck.so
is being made.  I've done this using an "LDADD" variable in
addrcheck/Makefile.am, like so:

  vgskin_addrcheck_so_SOURCES = ac_main.c
  vgskin_addrcheck_so_LDFLAGS = -shared
  vgskin_addrcheck_so_LDADD = \
        mac_leakcheck.c \
        mac_needs.c

This works, on one condition -- that mac_leakcheck.o and mac_needs.o have
been built beforehand.  I can force this by changing the order of the
SUBDIRS variable in to the top-level Makefile.am so that Memcheck is built
ahead of Addrcheck, but this seems a bit ad hoc.  I want a nice way to
specify in addrcheck/Makefile.am "please compile these files first".

I tried changing the SUBDIRS variable in addrcheck/Makefile.am to this:

  SUBDIRS = ../memcheck . docs tests

but automake doesn't like the "..".

Does anyone know if there's a way with automake to force the
pre-compilation of files in other directories that aren't subdirectories
of the current one?

Thanks.

N