Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2004 15:39 schrieb Al: > $ ls > linux myproj windows > > $ ls myproj > AUTHORS INSTALL README bootstrap doc > COPYING Makefile.am etc... > > Then I would hope to be able to switch to either the windows directory when > on windows, or the linux directory when on Linux and > > $ bootstrap && configure -C && make && make install Normally, you would do $ cd linux linux$ ../myproj/configure && make && make install You just need to have your makefiles set up correctly. If you're using automake, you should be all set. Otherwise you need to learn about making your makefiles VPATH-aware. In either case, as far as autoconf is concerned, "it just works", because all the platform-specific files are created in the current directory ("linux" in this example).