Hello, * scleung wrote on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:37:36PM CET: > Usually makefile generated by automake will compile each source file and > output .o file in the same directory of the source file.
No, that is not true. In the following, all all-caps entities are metasyntactic variables. Let's say ATS is the absolute directory name of the toplevel directory of the source tree of your package (corresponding to $(abs_top_srcdir)), ATB is the absolute directory name of the toplevel directory of your build tree (the directory from where you invoked configure, corresponding to $(abs_top_builddir)), SUB/DIR a subdirectory of ATS of some depth >= 0, and SOME/FILE.c listed in a *_SOURCES variable in SUB/DIR/Makefile.am. Then the object corresponding to SOME/FILE.c will live in directory - ATB/SUB/DIR/SOME if the subdir-objects Automake option is used, - ATB/SUB/DIR otherwise. The base name of the object is an internal Automake detail, but *usually*, it will end with either '.lo' or '.$(OBJEXT)' (where $(OBJEXT) is 'o' or 'obj' for most systems), and the name will contain 'FILE' and maybe also 'SOME' and maybe even other components, but then again, maybe not. > How to let automake output .o files to a specific directory at the > same time savely link them to my program/library? I can only venture to guess that you are having a different issue. Please describe what you want to achieve in high-level terms, then we can help you how to get there, or why to maybe rethink your proposed setup. Cheers, Ralf
