Learning Autoconf and Automake

I've started writting a tutorial for helping programmers getting started with GNU autoconf and automake. A previous attempt was done at this by Mark Galassi. I am very proud of this work, but unfortunately it has been left unfinished because of my injury. This is why it is a pleasure to announce that Marcelo Roberto Jimenez is the new maintainer. You can get the most recent version here.

The version on this web site is the last version released by me.

• Look at the online version.
• Download a dvi copy for printing.
• Download the texinfo source of the book. It requires at least Texinfo 3.12b to build properly, so watch out!
• Download autotools-0.10.2. My supplement to the tools that come with autoconf and automake.
• What's new.
• Also on-line you can browse
  • The GNU coding standards
  • The GNITS coding standards. (This is an unfinished draft copy).
• Ideas for next-generation libit

Links

• Free Software Foundation.
• Jim Kingdon used to maintain Autoconf.
• Peti's Autoconf Macro archive
• For good configure.in examples see the Tcl/Tk distribution and the source code for Octave.
• Preston Pfarner, an old friend from Tech, put together the following cool C++ tests
• Francois Pinard and libit. If you're looking for replacement function implementation for missing system call, this is where you can find them.
• GNU Scientific Library. Pretty groovy!
• Patches for Autoconf by T.E. Dickey.
• Fortran support for Autoconf/Automake by Brian Gough.
• Ian Taylor's document on GNU configure ( Postscript)
• The Mozilla C++ portability guide.
• Autoconf macros from Steve
• GNOME support utilities (snapshots).
• Command Line parsing with argp.
• Matthew's Fortran extensions to Automake/Autoconf
• Preview of a book on GTK
• GNU Gettext manual by Ben Bullock.
• Paper on autoconf/automake/libtool by Erez Zadok.
• txt2html to convert ChangeLog to HTML for this web page.
• US Copyright Act