Library Installation order in automake

Question

When I am running make distcheck, one library (lib2 in this example) is not being installed because it requires lib1.

Is there any way to mandate the order of library installation?

Makefile.am:

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libTwo.la libOne.la

libOne_la_SOURCES = lib/one/example.cpp \
    lib/one/example.h 

libTwo_la_SOURCES = lib/two/Example2.cpp \
    lib/two/Example2.h 

libTwo_la_CPPFLAGS = -I$(srcdir)/lib/one
libTwo_la_LIBADD = libOne.la

I am using:

• RedHatEnterpriseServer 5.5
• automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6

*Edit: * Here is what I am seeing on the make distcheck output.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lOne
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libTwo.la' with the above command before installing it
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  'libOne.la' '/tmp/xx-x-yy-21346    /home/foo/commonlib-1.0/_inst/lib/libOne.la'

Answer 1

Try exchanging:

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libTwo.la libOne.la

for:

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libOne.la libTwo.la

IIRC, the order in lib_LTLIBRARIES matters at install time.