RE: install to top_builddir

[Daily, Jeff A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:automake-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Reuben Hawkins
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:18 AM
> To: Reuben Hawkins; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: install to top_builddir
> 
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
> <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
> > Hello Reuben,
> >
> > * 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,
> >
> > Can you explain to us why you would need that to be done?
> >
> >
> I'm replacing hand edited makefiles for a group of projects and developers
> who are use to having all the binaries end up in the bin folder in the root of
> the source tree.  If there's a sample in SRC/demo/common/sample1, after
> building, they'll expect to be able to run SRC/bin/sample1.

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

That seemed to satisfy their needs.  Hope that helps.

Jeff