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Re: Directory navigation
On Aug 29, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:
Robert> project-root:
Robert> drv/ src/ inc/ make/ @host@/
> You could probably do this somehow with a lot of hackery. But it
> isn't the automake way -- in particular putting objects into the
> `@host@' directory. Instead we encourage people to use the standard
> GNU `non-srcdir' build feature.
I.e., it's trivially done if you run ../configure within @host@.
Robert> I won't even mention the headaches that I will encounter when
Robert> I go to link the C++ shared libraries... ;)
> These are probably solved, at least if you refer to template
> instantiation problems. You can set the `_AR' variable on a
> per-library basis to the correct CC invocation.
Or you may use the multi-language libtool, that supports building
shared libraries with several C++ compilers.
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