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The current organization of the obf external library is identical to that used by Flight Software. This is a necessary stage in producing an installed version, but there are drawbacks to using it as the installed version (see 4. and 5. above).
The fsw external library (or, rather, the procedure - hereinafter called "the script" - which produces it) uses the flight software build as a starting point but copies only files which are needed to build applications against the library, and changes the organization to simplify linking by putting all shareables in a single lib directory. This won't quite work for obf because of the (small number of) shareables with duplicate names, but the idea is to produce something very similar for obf from a full (flight software-style organization) build of needed packages. So, roughly the procedure on Linux would be
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