Re: Automake : how to build subdirectories under the dev tree

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Zoref" == Zoref Inon <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 >> The problem is that I can not find how to direct the automake 
 >> to put the objects & binary under specific directories 
 >> instead of the current directory.

You can't.  In the GNU build system, the USER decides in which
directory the objects/binaries should be put during the build,
not the developer of the package.

If you run `./configure; make' objects will be output in the
source tree.  

If you run `mkdir foo; cd foo; ../configure; make' objects
will be output in foo/.

So if you need two different build for debug and release,
you simply type

  mkdir debug release
  cd debug
  ../configure CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG # or whatever options you want
  make
  cd ../release
  ../configure 
  make

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz