GNU Automake Reference Manual

Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. Automake requires the use of Autoconf.

The Automake Reference Manual provides beginners with a simple introduction to the basics, and experts will find advanced details they need.

In this you will see the following things below.

- 1 Introduction",
- 2 An Introduction to the Autotools",
- 3 General ideas",
- 4 Some example packages",
- 5 Creating a Makefile.in",
- 6 Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal",
- 7 Directories",
- 8 Building Programs and Libraries",
- 9 Other Derived Objects",
- 10 Other GNU Tools",
- 11 Building documentation",
- 12 What Gets Installed",
- 13 What Gets Cleaned",
- 14 What Goes in a Distribution",
- 15 Support for test suites",
- 16 Rebuilding Makefiles",
- 17 Changing Automake’s Behavior",
- 18 Miscellaneous Rules",
- 19 Include",
- 20 Conditionals",
- 21 Silencing make",
- 22 The effect of --gnu and --gnits",
- 23 When Automake Isn’t Enough",
- 24 Distributing Makefile.ins",
- 25 Automake API Versioning",
- 26 Upgrading a Package to a Newer Automake Version",
- 27 Frequently Asked Questions about Automake",
- Appendix A Copying This Manual",
- Appendix B Indices",

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