How flexible is automake/autoconf about what
the directory structure of a project looks like?
I have a package that I am attempting to rewrite
to support automake. I would like to keep its
directory structure though.
The package consists of 40 or so C++ shared libraries,
each one has a "source" directory that is basically
empty, each library has about 20 other directories
that contain the source for the shared object.
I would like to make the distribution tree look
like this:
project-root:
drv/ src/ inc/ make/ @host@/
drv:
# contains some of the source for each part
drv/SharedObject
drv/subpart1
drv/...
drv/subpartN
src:
# contains the rest of the source for each part
src/SharedObject
src/subpart1
src/...
src/subpartN
inc:
# contains all header files
make:
# contains top-level configure scripts and makefiles
@host@:
@host@/lib
# contains all shared objects
@host@/obj:
# these directories contain all the object files and
# auto-generated makefiles
@host@/obj/subpart1
...
@host@/obj/subpartN
Is it possible to have my top-level scripts and makefiles
in the above "make" directory? Or is it absolutely
necessary to have them in the "project-root" directory?
Can I use a Makefile.am in one of the src/subpart
directories to create a Makefile in @host@/obj/subpart ?
I won't even mention the headaches that I will encounter
when I go to link the C++ shared libraries... ;)
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