Automake

The GNU Automake and Autoconf tool exist to generate the configure and makefiles needed to compile from source. This is mostly the case when the source is grabbed from a repository and not explicitly released.

 aclocal
 autoconf
 autoheader
 automake

should generate a ./configure and a makefile. Sometimes, the snapshots also have a script named autogen.sh or bootstrap.sh to do this automatically. Afterwards you can do

  ./configure
  make
  make install

Dependencies

In order to work, you need to have autotools as well as libtools installed.

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automake
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconf
• Automake home page
• Online version of The Goat Book aka Autobook
• Tutorial "Learning Autoconf and Automake"
• Tutorial for beginners "Autotools Tutorial"
• Article "Using Automake and Autoconf with C++"
• Autotoolset home page
• The "Autotools Tutorial"
• Learning the GNU Development tools

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