8.3.4 Libtool Libraries with Conditional Sources

Conditional compilation of sources in a library can be achieved in the same way as conditional compilation of sources in a program (see section Conditional compilation of sources). The only difference is that _LIBADD should be used instead of _LDADD and that it should mention libtool objects (‘.lo’ files).

So, to mimic the ‘hello’ example from Conditional compilation of sources, we could build a ‘libhello.la’ library using either ‘hello-linux.c’ or ‘hello-generic.c’ with the following ‘Makefile.am’.

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libhello.la
libhello_la_SOURCES = hello-common.c
EXTRA_libhello_la_SOURCES = hello-linux.c hello-generic.c
libhello_la_LIBADD = $(HELLO_SYSTEM)
libhello_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(HELLO_SYSTEM)

And make sure configure defines HELLO_SYSTEM as either ‘hello-linux.lo’ or ‘hello-generic.lo’.

Or we could simply use an Automake conditional as follows.

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libhello.la
libhello_la_SOURCES = hello-common.c
if LINUX
libhello_la_SOURCES += hello-linux.c
else
libhello_la_SOURCES += hello-generic.c
endif

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