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Re: problem to use autoconf/automake
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: problem to use autoconf/automake |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:45:56 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
Hi Nicolas,
* Nicolas Haller wrote on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:43:40PM CEST:
>
> I am writing a program in C++ and I want to use autotools to help me
> to build my program.
> I have organized my "working directory" in some subdirectory. It's look
> like this:
Don't do it like this. Don't have a build directory (yet).
Put Makefile.am under your source tree, either only one, or one per
directory, like this:
RSA/
- configure.ac
- Makefile.am
- src/
- *.cc *.hh
- Makefile.am
- doc/
- Makefile.am
- ...
- config/
- test/
Then run the autotools in your top source directory.
Then create a build directory anywhere, preferably outside your source
tree, configure and make from there:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure [OPTIONS]
make
make check
make install
That way you can have many build directories. Like: one for testing
(without optimization, CFLAGS=-g), one per system you export your NFS
to, whatever.
Does this make it any clearer?
Regarding header inclusion: if your C/C++ header files will live only in
your source directory, you can just set AM_CPPFLAGS accordingly
(something like -I$(srcdir)/interface or similar), and then
#include "file.h"
without a path. If on the other hand your header files form part of
your interface you export to other software, then I would include them
the way the other software should do as well. Many people do
#include "package/file.h"
And remember: files like config.h are not to be installed!
The autoconf and the automake manual have lots of details.
Regards,
Ralf
- problem to use autoconf/automake, Nicolas Haller, 2005/04/25
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Stepan Kasal, 2005/04/25
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Nicolas Haller, 2005/04/25
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/26
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Nicolas Haller, 2005/04/26
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/26
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Nicolas Haller, 2005/04/26
- Re: problem to use autoconf/automake, Stepan Kasal, 2005/04/28