Re: AC_OUTPUT eats VPATH

[Rasmus Tamstorf]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Derek R. Price wrote:

> Rasmus Tamstorf wrote:
> 
> >   AC_OUTPUT([src/_$ARCH/Makefile:src/Makefile.in])
> 
> You know, there's a much more painless way to do this.  Autoconf already knows
> that if you:
> 
> mkdir $ARCH
> cd $ARCH
> ../configure
> 
> Then the build tree will be created automatically in and under the current
> directory.  That's the whole point of the $srcdir variable in the first place.
> In this scenario, srcdir will be set to ../XXX where XXX is each subdir
> configure is creating a Makefile (or other file) in.

I know that much (but thanks anyway :) The point is that my source code is
made up of multiple packages, and I'd like the build objects to live close
to the source code rather than in a separate build tree. I.e. something
like : 

topdir/
  src/
    package1/
      arch1/
      arch2/
      ...
    package2/
      arch1/
      arch2/
      ...

instead of 

topdir/
  arch1/
    src/
      package1/
      package2/
  arch2/
    src/
      package1/
      package2/


I know that the latter is what the gnu tools use, but people here like it
the other way, so I'm trying to make that work. 

Rasmus

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