Re: Adapting existing directory structure to autotools

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, September 11, 2009 9:40 PM +0200 Ralf Wildenhues 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Then it's helpful to know what recursive and what nonrecursive build is,
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Alternative.html>.

I'd missed that one in my earlier reading, thanks. Looks very applicable.

> --- include/Makefile.am:
> # if those headers are to be installed in $includedir/include/*.h:
> nobase_include_HEADERS = MyLibrary/foo.h ...

The nobase feature looks very useful.

> # or even this (and then omit src/Vendor/Makefile.am):
> SUBDIRS = Vendor/lib1 Vendor/lib2 Vendor/include MyLibrary MyApp

Somewhere I'd read that the subdirectory feature wouldn't jump into 
deeply-nested subdirectories. Good to know I don't have to "flatten" things 
to make this work.

> For each Makefile.am, you need to list the respective Makefile in an
> AC_CONFIG_FILES statement in configure.ac, and you'll need the other
> standard blurb stuff there, too, of course.

This sounds much more doable now, thanks.