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Re: Libraries with sources in subdirectories?
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Steven G. Johnson |
Subject: |
Re: Libraries with sources in subdirectories? |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2001 08:47:47 -0400 (EDT) |
On 30 May 2001, Tim Van Holder 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.
That was my first reading, too, but I have to admit that I hoped this was
not the case; it seems much more sensible to default to putting the object
files in the same place as the sources.
Steven