RE: install to top_builddir

[dherring]

Jeff Daily wrote:
>> > * Reuben Hawkins wrote on Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:51:52AM CEST:
>> > > In my build process, I need to have all the libraries copied to
>> > > $(top_builddir)/lib and all the bins to $(top_builddir)/bin and
>> > > headers,
> I ran into a similar issue with projects I converted to automake where the
> developers were used to having all binaries, libraries, and headers end up
> in the root of the source tree under bin, lib, and include, respectively.
> My answer to them was to
>
> ./configure --prefix=`pwd`
> make
> make install

You can make this the default behavior by setting AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT in
configure.ac.

- Daniel