Re: Libraries with sources in subdirectories?

[Tim Van Holder]

On 29 May 2001 23:29:57 -0400, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > You can even arrange to have the objects kept in subdirectories using:
> >     AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects
> > This option isn't really documented yet, but it is on my to-do list.
> 
> I assume you mean that bar/baz.c is normally built as bar/baz.o, but if I
> include foobar-objects in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, then *all* objects will be
> kept in foobar/.  That's a nice feature, too.

You may be right, but I read it like:

  normally, you'd get ./foo.o and ./baz.o for foo.c and bar/baz.c; but
  with 'subdir-objects' in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, you'd get ./foo.o and
  ./bar/baz.o.