Re: install to top_builddir

[Reuben Hawkins]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

Awesome!  Thanks everybody!  This is very helpful.