Need help with cleaning up a working GNU Autotools setup

First of all, this is a crosspost, but since I get no feedback from the other group I'm hoping for you guys. Thanks!

Hi,

I've just moved from Eclipse CDT's 'Managed makefiles' to GNU's Autotools. It's a small project with 1 base directory and 3 subdirectories:

rsd-----+----collections +----debug +----global

All 3 subdirectories stores .c files and accompanying .h files. At this point they compile properly, i.e. 'collections' and 'debug' directories compile to 1 executable each and 'global' outputs a static library.

Note: The project will grow considerably, it would just be nice to have

my environment up to par before that happens.

Question: ------------ At this point all object files, binaries and libraries end up in the same directory as the source code from which they are created. This means a mess and I would want something like this:

+----bin (for executables) rsd-----+----collections-+----obj (for intermediate object files) +----lib (for libraries) +----debug (as for collections) +----global (as for collections)

How do I achieve this in a smooth way? I've tried the manuals and the net without being any wiser, so please, any hint is appreciated. I program in C, by the way.

Thanks in advanceSune