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Developers who are used to the simplicity of make for small
projects on a single system might be daunted at the prospect of learning
to use Automake and Autoconf. As your software is distributed to more
and more users, however, you will otherwise quickly find yourself
putting lots of effort into reinventing the services that the GNU build
tools provide, and making the same mistakes that they once made and
overcame. (Besides, since you're already learning Autoconf, Automake
will be a piece of cake.)
There are a number of places that you can go to for more information on
the GNU build tools.
- Web
The home pages for
@href{http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/,Autoconf},
@href{http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/,Automake}, and
@href{http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/,Libtool}.
- Automake Manual
See section `Automake' in GNU Automake, for more
information on Automake.
- Books
The book GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool(1)
describes the complete GNU build environment. You can also find the
entire book on-line at @href{http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/,"The
Goat Book" home page}.
- Tutorials and Examples
The @href{http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/,Autoconf Developer Page}
maintains links to a number of Autoconf/Automake tutorials online, and
also links to the @href{http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/,
Autoconf Macro Archive}.
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