GNU bug report logs - #11863
Building test plugins

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Message #19 received at 11863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#11863: Building test plugins
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:32:48 +0100

On 5 July 2012 07:19, Gary V. Vaughan <gary <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Currently the best way to tell Automake to only build a libtool library
> for `make check' without installing it, but at the same time to tell libtool
> not to make a convenience archive is:
>
>   check_LTLIBRARIES += tests/libalientest.la
>
>   tests_libalientest_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -rpath /dev/null
>
> The -rpath argument tells libtool that this is not a convenience archive.
> The parameter can be anything, because Automake will not install a
> check_LTLIBRARIES object anyway, but /dev/null makes it clearer that we'r
> doing something a bit odd here.

Thanks very much, that does exactly what I'm after.

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