Re: Integrating a library using autoconf and automake

[Andy Smith]

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?