Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-05-17 Thread Gavin Smith
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Bob Rossi b...@brasko.net wrote: Autotools is a great build system. However, after configuring it to place as many files as possible in a subdirectory, it still takes up 87.5% of my projects root directory. aclocal.m4 autom4te.cache build

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29/04/2013 20:16, Bob Rossi wrote: Autotools is a great build system. However, after configuring it to place as many files as possible in a subdirectory, it still takes up 87.5% of my projects root directory. And? Do you really think that just for the sake of ls output you should mess up

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-30 Thread Andy Tai
The original question was a question, not a cry. It is legitimate desire to have clean ways of organizing build system files and source files. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.euwrote: On 29/04/2013 20:16, Bob Rossi wrote: Autotools is a great build

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-29 Thread Bob Rossi
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:52:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/24/2013 06:44 PM, Andy Tai wrote: The GNU Build system is generally set up such that the Makefile.am, configure.ac, etc. files are in the root directory of a software project. Is there a way to place these files in a

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-29 Thread Harlan Stenn
Bob Rossi writes: Autotools is a great build system. However, after configuring it to place as many files as possible in a subdirectory, it still takes up 87.5% of my projects root directory. aclocal.m4 autom4te.cache build configure configure.ac Makefile.am

Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-24 Thread Andy Tai
The GNU Build system is generally set up such that the Makefile.am, configure.ac, etc. files are in the root directory of a software project. Is there a way to place these files in a subdirectory of the root directory, like this as an example: ./ README COPYING GNUBuild/

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/24/2013 06:44 PM, Andy Tai wrote: The GNU Build system is generally set up such that the Makefile.am, configure.ac, etc. files are in the root directory of a software project. Is there a way to place these files in a subdirectory of the root directory, like this as an example: ./