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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:04:47+00:00

I’ve got a C++ project which uses automake and autoconf. I’m new to both

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I’ve got a C++ project which uses automake and autoconf. I’m new to both of these.

My home directory is network mounted — the same on every server we have — and I want to compile and run the project (and its executable) concurrently on separate machines.

Our servers are frequently different architectures. My desktop is 32-bit, but the server is 64-bit, etc.

What options do I use in configure.ac and Makefile.am to compile the object files in separate directories named for the machine architectures? It’s relatively simple to do this in a regular Makefile, but I don’t know how to set autotools.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you don’t do anything “wrong” or unusual in your configure.ac and Makefile.am setup, this is supported automatically:

    mkdir /some/where/build
cd /some/where/build
/else/where/source/configure --options...
make
make install

    Basically, you create the build directory anywhere you want (in your case probably on a non-network mount), and call configure from there. This will then build the code in the build directory you have created.

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