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.

• Introduction
• General ideas
  • General Operation
  • Depth
  • Strictness
  • The Uniform Naming Scheme
  • How derived variables are named
• Some example packages
  • A simple example, start to finish
  • A classic program
  • Building etags and ctags
• Creating a `Makefile.in'
• Scanning `configure.in'
  • Configuration requirements
  • Other things Automake recognizes
  • Auto-generating aclocal.m4
  • Autoconf macros supplied with Automake
  • Writing your own aclocal macros
• The top-level `Makefile.am'
• Building Programs and Libraries
  • Building a program
  • Building a library
  • Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
  • Building a Shared Library
  • Variables used when building a program
  • Yacc and Lex support
  • C++ Support
  • Fortran 77 Support
    • Preprocessing Fortran 77
    • Compiling Fortran 77 Files
    • Mixing Fortran 77 With C and C++
      • How the Linker is Chosen
    • Fortran 77 and Autoconf
  • Support for Other Languages
  • Automatic de-ANSI-fication
  • Automatic dependency tracking
• Other Derived Objects
  • Executable Scripts
  • Header files
  • Architecture-independent data files
  • Built sources
• Other GNU Tools
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Gettext
  • Guile
  • Libtool
  • Java
• Building documentation
  • Texinfo
  • Man pages
• What Gets Installed
• What Gets Cleaned
• What Goes in a Distribution
• Support for test suites
• Changing Automake's Behavior
• Miscellaneous Rules
  • Interfacing to etags
  • Handling new file extensions
• Include
• Conditionals
• The effect of --gnu and --gnits
• The effect of --cygnus
• When Automake Isn't Enough
• Distributing `Makefile.in's
• Some ideas for the future
• Macro and Variable Index
• General Index

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