This document describes the GNU configure and build systems. It describes how autoconf, automake, libtool, and make fit together. It also includes a discussion of the older Cygnus configure system.
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I’ve started writting a tutorial for helping programmers getting started with GNU autoconf and automake. A previous attempt was done at this by Mark Galassi. I am very proud of this work, but unfortunately it has been left unfinished because of my injury. This is why it is a pleasure to announce that Marcelo Roberto [...]
Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in’s from files called `Makefile.am’. Each `Makefile.am’ is basically a series of make macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated `Makefile.in’s are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards.
Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of UNIX-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are independent of Autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to have Autoconf.
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