Re: building libtool library into other directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Vance Shipley wrote:

> I have this directory structure in my project:
>
>         project/
>                 ...
>                 src/
>                 lib/
>
> I would like to have the libraries built from the sources
> in src be built into lib.  When I try to put a directory
> prefix on to teh automake directives things get confused.
>
> Can I do this?

Yes, however, when you define the library targets you must substitute 
every / with _ so a path like:

/lib

is represented like

_lib

to Automake.

You may encounter some libtool bugs when building libraries in 
subdirectories.  The bugs are more likely to be encountered when 
building C++ with "vendor" compilers than C.

Bob
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