Autotools: a practitioner’s guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool (Chapter 1)
17, May 2008 by Kiko
In this chapter I’ve presented a high-level overview of the Autotools to give you a feel for how everything ties together.
In the next chapter, we’ll begin creating a hand-coded build system for a toy project. The idea is that you’ll become familiar with the requirements of a reasonable build system, and how much can be done for you by the Autotools.
Too many developers these days start out with the Autotools, not having aquired through the “school of hard knocks” the experience to know what it’s really doing for them. This can lead to frustration, and a negative attitude. In the next chapter, you’ll become familiar with the rationale for a lot of the original design of the Autotools. In understanding this background information, my hope is that any potential negative bias you may already have for the Autotools will be tempered a bit.
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Autotools: a practitioner’s guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool (Chapter 1)…
In this chapter I’ve presented a high-level overview of the Autotools to give you a feel for how everything ties together.
In the next chapter, we’ll begin creating a hand-coded build system for a toy project. The idea is that you’ll become famil…