Re: AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR usage

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Derek Robert Price wrote on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:38:58PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >$ autoreconf -vis
> ># ... from automake:
> >Makefile.am:3: required file `./strtod.c' not found
> 
> Maybe because you have referenced LIBOBJS in your top leve Makefile.am, 
> automake assumes it should look for them there?

Ok, I misunderstood the intention of AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR.  I thought
its purpose was to provide a separate directory for library replacement
files (and automake would figure the place for them from this setting).

> I played with AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR and it doesn't seem to have an effect 
> on CVS, which stores its libobjs in lib and builds them as a seperate 
> library which it later links to.

Thanks for the pointer to a working example.  This clears things up.

Regards,
Ralf