Re: Integrating a library using autoconf and automake

[Thamer Al-Harbash]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Andy Smith wrote:

> The part that I can't quite grasp right now, is how and where to
> install the files from the library?  We do not want them to be
> installed system-wide.  The --prefix from the top-level configure is
> meant for the application, not the library.  Ideally we want the
> library to stay just in the source directory and be statically
> linked in without the user being aware that there is a library
> involved at all.

Try the noinst_ hook in automake -- specifically noinst_LIBRARIES.
It should prevent the library from being installed at all.

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