On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:28:45PM -0800, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Andy Smith wrote: > > > The part that I can't quite grasp right now, is how and where to > > install the files from the library? We do not want them to be > > installed system-wide. The --prefix from the top-level configure is > > meant for the application, not the library. Ideally we want the > > library to stay just in the source directory and be statically > > linked in without the user being aware that there is a library > > involved at all. > > Try the noinst_ hook in automake -- specifically noinst_LIBRARIES. > It should prevent the library from being installed at all.
Thanks for that idea. I may end up doing this, but I was hoping to avoid having to edit any files inside libfoo/ as we want to just dro it in as much as possible. Is there some way I could put those hooks into a higher-level Makefile.am?
