Re: build idea

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:

|> While working on my new testsuite stuff I noticed that several things
|> (particularly running just-built programs, but installation would
|> benefit too) would get simpler if the extra libraries and the dynamic
|> linker were moved to top level of the build tree.  IOW, instead of
|> doing
|> 
|> $(objpfx)libfoo.so: ...
|> 
|> you would have
|> 
|> $(common-objpfx)libfoo.so: ...
|> 
|> This is a win because you no longer have to know which directory a
|> library lives in to link with it.

I'd rather keep the libraries in place and make {sym,hard}links in a
special subdirectory, similar to what we make with the include files.

Andreas.