Hi John, * John Darrington wrote on Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:42:37AM CET: > I've been trying to convert a rather largish automake controlled > project from a recursive style build system, to a non-recursive one. > I was rather suprised to see that automake decides to put all the > object files in the root directory; not only ugly, but destroys the > namespaces afforded by each directory.
Read up on the Automake option subdir-objects in the documentation. To specify per-package like this: AC_INIT([foo-package], [1.23], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects ...]) or per-Makefile.am in `AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = ...'. I prefer the first usually. Cheers, Ralf