On 04/24/2013 06:44 PM, Andy Tai wrote: > The GNU Build system is generally set up such that the Makefile.am, > configure.ac, etc. files are in the root directory of a software project. > Is there a way to place these files in a subdirectory of the root > directory, like this as an example: > > ./ > README > COPYING > GNUBuild/ > Makefile.am > configure > ... > include/ > src/ > > ... > > > This may mean the user has to run configure from the subdirectory GNUBuild > as the initial step. But the good thing is that this makes the source > files and build files separate and allows co-existence of different build > system support.. for example, CMake's CMakefile.txt can coexist with GNU > build files in a clean fashion
Sounds like you are asking a similar question to this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-04/msg00014.html with this answer of no (which really means: if YOU write the patches and prove that they are worth maintaining, then it could be added in the future, but no one else is interested in this unusual setup): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-04/msg00021.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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