Store GNU files in other places

Question

How can I store GNU make and configure files elsewhere? I have a project I'm working on that I compiled using:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && su -c 'make install'

The thing is, I don’t want to pollute the current folder, which is the svn / git / hg / whatever sandbox with the files generated by this command. I want to place these files in a separate place. I don’t know if this is similar, but when I compile the linux kernel from the source code, I can specify where to put the output by passing the “O” parameter to “make”, something like this:

make O=/home/user/linux-output

Answer 1

The Makefile must support this feature.

, make , autoconf, :

mkdir ../build
cd ../build
../configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

(, gcc).

Answer 2

, GNU autotools configure.

, Makefile .

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script, work_copy, script .. work_copy, . , .

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