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Types of Files
Automake knows that different types of files should be treated differently.
- Data files (foo_DATA)
For the build infrastructure, these are the simplest files. Just install them without change.
- Header files (foo_HEADERS)
Public header files.
- Executable binaries (foo_PROGRAMS)
Usually built from a number of sources. Can be stripped. Should be installed as executables.
- Scripts (foo_SCRIPTS)
Installed as executables. Can have their name transformed (the --program-transorm-name flag to configure). Cannot be stripped (so they are different from programs).
- Manual pages (foo_MAN) and info pages (foo_TEXINFOS)
Installed into the appropriate directories. For example, automake knows that bar.3n goes in section 3 (despite the trailing n). For info documents, it knows to run install-info on the results to put them into the directory, and so forth.
- Libraries (foo_LIBRARIES and foo_LTLIBRARIES)
Specifies that the files are static or shared libraries, possibly created with libtool (not covered in this tutorial).