Automake - Definition and Overview

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 Perl, a programming language and must be used with autoconf, another GNU tool. Automake contains the following commands:

• aclocal
• automake

Command line options

--add-missing, -a: Tells automake to regenerate the files ./install-sh, ./mkinstalldirs, ./missing and ./depcomp.

See also

• imake

References

• Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey: Gnu Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool, Sams, ISBN 1-57870-190-2

External links

• Automake home page (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/)
• Manual (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html)
• Online version of The Goat Book (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html)
• Tutorial "Learning Autoconf and Automake (http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/)" by Eleftherios Gkioulekas
• Article "Using Automake and Autoconf with C++ (http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml)" by Murray Cumming
• Autotoolset home page (http://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/)