configure and make

configure and make

[Mohammed Khalid Ansari]

Hi

I used to write small programmes, just compile it and run that's it. But 
now I am wroking on a big project which might require configure and make. 
I am a newbie to these. Will anyone guide me where can I get the resources 
to learn writing configure.in, Makefile.am, Makefile.in, Makefile etc.

with regards....

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Re: configure and make

[Sebastian Henschel]

hello mohammed...

Received at 2002-11-25 / 10:00 by Mohammed Khalid Ansari:

> I used to write small programmes, just compile it and run that's it. But 
> now I am wroking on a big project which might require configure and make. 
> I am a newbie to these. Will anyone guide me where can I get the resources 
> to learn writing configure.in, Makefile.am, Makefile.in, Makefile etc.

look at the info-pages of autoconf (like "info -f autoconf"). it is
really a large document which also describes automake, libtool and
others.
then you should take a look at other small configure-enabled packages
and see how they work.

hth,
 sebastian
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Re: configure and make

[Glynn Clements]

Mohammed Khalid Ansari wrote:

> I used to write small programmes, just compile it and run that's it. But 
> now I am wroking on a big project which might require configure and make. 
> I am a newbie to these. Will anyone guide me where can I get the resources 
> to learn writing configure.in, Makefile.am, Makefile.in, Makefile etc.

Refer to the Info files for "make", "autoconf" and "automake", in that
order (i.e. you definitely need to learn "make", you probably want to
learn "autoconf", and you might want to learn "automake").

They can be read using "C-h i" in Emacs or with the standalone "info"
program.

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Re: configure and make

[Nat Ersoz]

I used GNU make exclusively, which is bundled with most linux
distributions.  The complete documentation is here:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_chapter/make_toc.html

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