Re: how to install library in a specific directory?

[William Pursell]

bonami wrote:
>   I have two projects. One generates a shared library and the other uses it. 
> The library is to be installed in /usr/local/lib/ezproject,
<snip>
> …
>   ezcommon's Makefile.am,
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libezcommon.la
> libdir = $(exec_prefix)/lib/ezproject

This is a bad idea.  The project maintainer should not be
deciding where the user must install the library.  If
the user wants to install ezproject in /opt/ezproject, he
should to be able to do 'configure --libdir=/opt/ezproject/lib',
but your setup will not allow that.

-- 
William Pursell