Automake generating binaries to bin/ instead of in src/

Question

I searched for the answer to this question but couldn\'t find any good. Maybe they\'re old and something has changed, so I ask again.

I have a directory structure as

Answer 1

Automake doesn't cope very well if you try to set up your directories in a different way than it expects. What you want would involve writing extra rules to move the binaries to ../bin after compiling them, which is needlessly complicated.

If you don't want to clutter your source directory, try this:

cd my_project
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make

That will put all the generated files (like makefiles, binaries, object files) in subdirectories of my_project/build.