GNU Automake

For version 1.5, 22 August 2001

This file documents the GNU Automake package. Automake is a program which creates GNU standards-compliant Makefiles from template files. This edition documents version 1.5.

• Introduction
• General ideas
  • General Operation
  • Strictness
  • The Uniform Naming Scheme
  • How derived variables are named
  • Variables reserved for the user
  • Programs automake might require
• 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'
• An Alternative Approach to Subdirectories
• Rebuilding Makefiles
• Building Programs and Libraries
  • Building a program
    • Introductory blathering
    • Conditional compilations
    • Linking the program
  • Building a library
  • Building a Shared Library
  • Program and Library Variables
  • Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
  • Variables used when building a program
  • Yacc and Lex support
  • C++ Support
  • Assembly 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
  • Java Support
  • Support for Other Languages
  • Automatic de-ANSI-fication
  • Automatic dependency tracking
  • Support for executable extensions
• Other Derived Objects
  • Executable Scripts
  • Header files
  • Architecture-independent data files
  • Built sources
• Other GNU Tools
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Gettext
  • Libtool
  • Java
  • Python
• Building documentation
  • Texinfo
  • Man pages
• What Gets Installed
  • Basics of installation
  • The two parts of install
  • Extending installation
  • Staged installs
  • Rules for the user
• What Gets Cleaned
• What Goes in a Distribution
  • Basics of distribution
  • Fine-grained distribution control
  • The dist hook
  • Checking the distribution
  • The types of distributions
• Support for test suites
  • Simple Tests
  • DejaGNU Tests
• Changing Automake's Behavior
• Miscellaneous Rules
  • Interfacing to etags
  • Handling new file extensions
  • Support for Multilibs
• Include
• Conditionals
• The effect of --gnu and --gnits
• The effect of --cygnus
• When Automake Isn't Enough
• Distributing `Makefile.in's
• Macro and Variable Index
• General Index

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