Re: library specific installation directory

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:24:47PM CET:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 06:43:40PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:28:29PM CET:
> > > 
> > > Since I'm building a bunch of plugins, I'l like to install them in a
> > > plugins/ dir, instead of in lib/.
> > 
> > See <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Libtool-Modules>.
> 
> OK, that's a useful piece of information. However, it doesn't directly
> address the question I have, unless I'm missing something.
> 
> By default, when I do 'make install' the library goes into /lib,

Above shows that it goes to .../lib/$(PACKAGE)

> I want it to go into say, lib/plugins

So?
  plugindir = $(libdir)/plugins
  plugin_LTLIBRARIES = ...

Are you sure you don't rather want $(pkglibdir)/plugins?

There is a general naming scheme where_HOW in Automake:
<http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Uniform>
I thought you would have heard about it by now.

Cheers,
Ralf