Thanks for quick reply.
Hello Jeff,
* Jeff Ward wrote on Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:58:37PM CET:
I have an automake project setup but I would like the object files
to be
placed in a specified directory. For example:
Foo/Foo.cpp
Foo/obj
Foo/Makefile.am
I would like to have the Foo.o in the obj directory after compilation
and not in directory Foo. Is this possible? If so how do I go about
setting that up? This would really cleanup my directory.
Do not use a directory named "obj",
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/obj_002f-and-Make.html
>
"obj" was simply for the mock scenario really it could be called
anything hopefully configurable. Thanks for the heads up though.
Get to know how VPATH builds work:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/VPATH-Builds.html
>
They achieve something similar to what you want and are much more
flexible in practice.
The VPATH is definitely a nice solution for a parallel build tree. In
my case I was hoping for a more crude solution. In then end what I
was hoping for is an option that would change the rule for .cpp.o: in
the generated makefile.
Currently it looks something like this:
.cpp.o:
if $(CXXCOMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF "$(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo" -c -o $@
$<; \ ...
What I was hoping for was an ability to make the rule look something
like the following:
.cpp.o:
if $(CXXCOMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF "$(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo" -c -o
objects/$@ $<; \
This would cause my object files to be placed somewhere other than the
current directory. I know this is probably a stretch and might be
going against the core capabilities and features of the tool. But I
can hope.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf
Thanks again,
- Jeff
