On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:27:01PM +0200, Sune Ahlgren wrote: [...] > Question: > ------------ > At this point all object files, binaries and libraries end up in the > same directory as the source code from which they are created. This > means a mess and I would want something like this: [...]
AFAIK you don't do that :-) You, the maintainer just provide the configury. At compile time the user decides what goes where (object files and other build intermediries). The recommended way is to make a build directory (I make it as a subdirectory of the top-level project tree) and call from there configure. Everything made by the build lands there, like so: cd my-project-0.9 mkdir .build cd .build ../configure --option1 make Just try it with any ready-made autoconf project. If you need a small example to play on and see all this at work, just try GNU Hello, which was made for just this purpose: See <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Hello.html> <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/> HTH -- tomas
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