Re: creating and using separate src and obj trees

[Simon Mudd]

Hi Bob,

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:

> You get most of this behavior for free if you put your configure
> script directly under 'src', cd to 'obj', and then execute the
> configure script like /usr/src/configure.

Is it really that easy? I'll have to try ... yes it looks like you are
right, the source starts building. I just wonder why someone does not
mention this in BIG LETTERS in the automake or autoconf documentation!

> You may find it difficult to convince Automake to build from
> src/lib/lib1 to obj/lib1 since it assumes a mirrored directory tree.

Sorry that was a typo, the trees should be identical.

Thanks for the help.

Simon