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 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 > configur

Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory?

2013-04-30 Thread Fabrício Zimmerer Murta
not at the 'regular' way. -Original Message- From: Andy Tai Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:15 PM To: Diego Elio Pettenò Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Put GNU build system files in a subdirectory? The original question was a question, not a "cry." It is legitimate desire

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 wrote: > On 29/04/2013 20:16, Bob Rossi wrote: > > Autotools is a great build system. However, afte

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?

2013-04-29 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 > Makefil

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 su

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: > > ./

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/ Makef