On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:52:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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
Autotools is a great build system. However, after configuring it to
place as many files as possible in a subdirectory, it still takes up
87.5% of my projects root directory.
aclocal.m4
autom4te.cache
build
configure
configure.ac
Makefile.am
Makefile.in
src <- This is my project
You think people are interested in the above [usual] setup?
Bob Rossi
