[vox] RFC: Autoconf/Automake tutorial for beginners

[Ken Bloom]

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On 2003.05.26 13:59, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Hello folks.  I wrote a Autoconf/Automake tutorial for beginners. =20
> Can
> you
> guys review and get back to me with corrections/suggestions?  Thanks!
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>    http://www.cbreak.org/projects/autotools/

[bloom@kabloom ~/lab1]% autoscan --version
autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
[bloom@kabloom ~/lab1]% automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

On debian testing/unstable-mixed, to test out your chapter 2 I decided
to use a
single source-file ECS project written in C++. When I ran ./configure,
the
following occurred:
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checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes
checking for _Bool... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.h.in

After resovling this by running autoheader, I ran it again and found out
that it
never created a Makefile for me, either when the .in file was named
makefile.in
or Makefile.in. (When removing everything in the diretory except for the
source=20
file, and starting over adding a makefile.in, this problem went away)


Thanks for doing this. I had been looking to learn autotools for a
while.
This is actually quite simpler than any other autotools tutorial I have=20
found before.


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