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GNU Automake

This file documents the GNU Automake package for creating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles from template files. This edition documents version 1.3.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 General ideas
- 2.1 General Operation
- 2.2 Depth
- 2.3 Strictness
- 2.4 The Uniform Naming Scheme
- 2.5 How derived variables are named
3 Some example packages
- 3.1 A simple example, start to finish
- 3.2 A classic program
- 3.3 Building etags and ctags
4 Creating a Makefile.in
5 Scanning configure.in
- 5.1 Configuration requirements
- 5.2 Other things Automake recognizes
- 5.3 Auto-generating aclocal.m4
- 5.4 Autoconf macros supplied with Automake
- 5.5 Writing your own aclocal macros
6 The top-level Makefile.am
7 Building Programs and Libraries
- 7.1 Building a program
- 7.2 Building a library
- 7.3 Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
- 7.4 Building a Shared Library
- 7.5 Variables used when building a program
- 7.6 Yacc and Lex support
- 7.7 C++ and other languages
- 7.8 Automatic de-ANSI-fication
- 7.9 Automatic dependency tracking
8 Other Derived Objects
- 8.1 Executable Scripts
- 8.2 Header files
- 8.3 Architecture-independent data files
- 8.4 Built sources
9 Other GNU Tools
- 9.1 Emacs Lisp
- 9.2 Gettext
- 9.3 Guile
- 9.4 Libtool
- 9.5 Java
10 Building documentation
- 10.1 Texinfo
- 10.2 Man pages
11 What Gets Installed
12 What Gets Cleaned
13 What Goes in a Distribution
14 Support for test suites
15 Changing Automake’s Behavior
16 Miscellaneous Rules
- 16.1 Interfacing to etags
- 16.2 Handling new file extensions
17 Conditionals
18 The effect of --gnu and --gnits
19 The effect of --cygnus
20 When Automake Isn’t Enough
21 Distributing Makefile.ins
22 Some ideas for the future
Index

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