GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. It is made by the Free Software Foundation as one of GNU programs, and is part of the GNU build system. The makefiles produced follow the GNU Coding Standards.
It is written in the Perl programming language and must be used with GNU autoconf. Automake contains the following commands:
aclocal, however, is a general-purpose p...
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GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. It is made by the Free Software Foundation as one of GNU programs, and is part of the GNU build system. The makefiles produced follow the GNU Coding Standards.
It is written in the Perl programming language and must be used with GNU autoconf. Automake contains the following commands:
aclocal, however, is a general-purpose program that can be useful to autoconf users. The GNU Compiler Collection, for example, uses aclocal even though its makefile is hand written.
Like Autoconf, Automake used to be not entirely backwards compatible. For example, a project created with automake 1.4 will not necessarily work with automake 1.9. The situation however has improved noticeably with more recent releases.
Automake aims to allow the programmer to write a makefile in a higher-level language, rather than having to write the whole makefile manually. In simple cases, it...
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