Sending _OBJECTS output to configuration specific directory - HELP!!

[Ray Cardillo]

I've been struggling with this, and cannot seem to find any examples of 
other people doing the same... but I'd like to be able to have 
automake/configure create makefiles that put the .o, .a, executables, 
etc in another directory based on a configuration parameter.

I did this by hand-editting the Makefile.in, but I want to have automake 
do it for me so we can use the simpler interface it offers (and I can 
script the generation of them easier).

Anyway, we want to do the typical thing like Visual SlickEdit offers so 
we can do a "gmake -CFG=Debug" to have it send all output to the "Debug" 
directory, or "DebugOptimized" or "Release" or "Profiled", etc.  To do 
this, the linker has to do it's work in that directory as well, and the 
directory has to be based on a variable.

Isn't really that difficult to do by hand, but I'm having trouble 
getting automake to do it because I don't see any way of having it do 
the "cd $(CFGDIR)" before running "ar" or linking, etc, or if there's a 
simpler way automake can do this and I just can't find it.


Please respond directly so I don't have to subscribe to the list just to 
ask this one question.

Thanks for any help,
Ray Cardillo