On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:10:57PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Are there any software which can generate Configure.in/Makefile.in etc.
> files automatically? I tried the auto* programs but I got nothing which
> could ever compile. I could not understand what was missing in configure.in.
> It actually would had been easier to write Makefile manually...
Try looking at this page:
http://www.murrayc.com/learning/techlearn_explanations.shtml
In the Linux Programming section (the third one), have a read of
the three documents there about autoconf, automake and libtool.
Each of them's about three pages, and should get you kick-started
quite well.
After reading those and learning the basics of autoconf/automake,
read through the actual automake/autoconf/libtool documentation
itself. It's not scary once you have a good introduction to it.
The problem is finding good tutorials on them.
I had a read of the Autobook by New Riders, and I was _really_
unimpressed by it. I didn't think it was very lucid at all. It
made me stay away from autoconf for a long time -- only until I
found those documents did I fully appreciate how cool they were.
Also google for "Developing Software with GNU" by Eleftherios
Gkioulekas. It's a bit longer, and it's incomplete, but it's
more thorough.
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