Re: best way to structure project with an "empty" dir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

* John Richetta wrote on Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:32:01PM CEST:
> I have a project that has a directory structure like this:
>
>                   TopDir
>                     |
>             +----------------+----+
>             |                |    |
>           AppDir           other dirs...
>           |    |
>           A    B
>
> The top level of this project is where one invokes configure and make.  
> However, the project has traditionally been structured such that the 
> final executable resides in subdirectories of AppDir, and the actual 
> source code primarily resides in subdirs of AppDir.

Example:

TopDir/Makefile.am:
SUBDIRS = AppDir ...

AppDir/Makefile.am:
bin_PROGRAMS = A/proggie_one
A_proggie_one_SOURCES = B/source1.c A/sub/source2.c ...
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects

There is no reason to build a dummy program with no sources.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf