Re: library specific installation directory

[Bob Rossi]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:26:00PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:24:47PM CET:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 06:43:40PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:28:29PM CET:
> > > > 
> > > > Since I'm building a bunch of plugins, I'l like to install them in a
> > > > plugins/ dir, instead of in lib/.
> > > 
> > > See <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Libtool-Modules>.
> > 
> > OK, that's a useful piece of information. However, it doesn't directly
> > address the question I have, unless I'm missing something.
> > 
> > By default, when I do 'make install' the library goes into /lib,
> 
> Above shows that it goes to .../lib/$(PACKAGE)
> 
> > I want it to go into say, lib/plugins
> 
> So?
>   plugindir = $(libdir)/plugins
>   plugin_LTLIBRARIES = ...
> 
> Are you sure you don't rather want $(pkglibdir)/plugins?
> 
> There is a general naming scheme where_HOW in Automake:
> <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Uniform>
> I thought you would have heard about it by now.

Wow, thanks, you just connected the dots for me. Believe it or not, I
read that section like 3 times, and failed to understand how this
worked. Now my eyes have been opened. 

Thanks!
Bob Rossi