So, it's a little paradox that we use the file twice. Firstly to build libvirt-admin.la (a client side of the Admin API), then once again to build the server side. Well, the problem is, this does not play nicely with the distclean since the file is generated. So while it's removed in the src/ the distclean running in daemon/ will not find the file and fail. The file is needed because it contains the RPC wrappers. So let's leave the client code as is and from the daemon/ just link the client library. The linker will find desired symbols and use them. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- daemon/Makefile.am | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon/Makefile.am b/daemon/Makefile.am index b9c089d..d3fc029 100644 --- a/daemon/Makefile.am +++ b/daemon/Makefile.am @@ -128,8 +128,7 @@ libvirtd_conf_la_LIBADD = $(LIBXML_LIBS) noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libvirtd_admin.la libvirtd_admin_la_SOURCES = \ - admin_server.c admin_server.h \ - ../src/admin/admin_protocol.c + admin_server.c admin_server.h libvirtd_admin_la_CFLAGS = \ $(AM_CFLAGS) \ @@ -145,6 +144,9 @@ libvirtd_admin_la_LDFLAGS = \ $(COVERAGE_LDFLAGS) \ $(NO_INDIRECT_LDFLAGS) +libvirtd_admin_la_LIBADD = \ + ../src/libvirt-admin.la + man8_MANS = libvirtd.8 sbin_PROGRAMS = libvirtd -- 2.3.6