Autoconf, automake and friends

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. A Brief Introduction To The Tools

3. The Standard Build Procedure

4. The Maintainer's Point Of View

5. Configuration Details Specific to a Particular Build

6. Determining the Build Details

7. Recording the Build Details

8. Knowing What To Build

9. Putting All The Pieces Together

10. Pictorial View Of The Process

11. Developing versus Distributing

12. Distributed Files

13. Distributing Built Files

14. Automake

15. A Sample Automake File (fragment)

16. Types of Files

17. Building files from multiple sources

18. Including Generated Files As Sources

19. Other Common Automake Constructs

20. Subdirectories And Extra Files

21. Working With Autoconf and Local Targets

22. Time for a break!

23. Autoconf

24. General Setup Of configure.in

25. Checking For Functions and Files

26. Conditional Compiler Flag Setting

27. Argument Parsing

28. Custom Arguments

29. Variable Substitution

30. An Example Of AC_SUBST In Practice

31. Third Party Macros

32. An Example Macro

33. Questions? Comments?