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Automake and Autoconf

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This is a bit of a confusing process.

= Basic Pipeline =

1. Developer works on Makefile.am and configure.ac
2. (Some automatic steps)
3. Resulting process uses Makefile and config.h

= ...and in more detail =

• The top-level script (maybe autogen.sh, bootstrap, etc.) starts
• autoreconf which runs:
• aclocal to turn configure.ac into aclocal.m4, which is the input for both
• autoconf, which produces ./configure, and
• autoheader which makes config.h.in, then
• automake which turns Makefile.am into Makefile.in, and then
• ./configure turns the user's input, results of its tests, and Makefile.in into Makefile plus config.h.in into config.h

= For more =

See the Goat Book - http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

It's an open book, so you can get the full source, here:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/autobook co autobook