GNU Automake

For version 1.4, 10 January 1999

This file documents the GNU Automake package for creating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles from template files. This edition documents version 1.4.

• 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++ Support
  • 7.8 Fortran 77 Support
    • 7.8.1 Preprocessing Fortran 77
    • 7.8.2 Compiling Fortran 77 Files
    • 7.8.3 Mixing Fortran 77 With C and C++
      • 7.8.3.1 How the Linker is Chosen
    • 7.8.4 Fortran 77 and Autoconf
  • 7.9 Support for Other Languages
  • 7.10 Automatic de-ANSI-fication
  • 7.11 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 Include
• 18 Conditionals
• 19 The effect of --gnu and --gnits
• 20 The effect of --cygnus
• 21 When Automake Isn't Enough
• 22 Distributing `Makefile.in's
• 23 Some ideas for the future
• Macro and Variable Index
• General Index

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