[vox] RFC: Autoconf/Automake tutorial for beginners

[Mark K. Kim]

Hello Ken,

You need a Makefile or Makefile.in *before* running autoscan.  Otherwise
Autoscan is gonna think you don't want Makefile created.  Just write a
simple Makefile, or even just a blank file should be enough to tell
Autoscan you want a Makefile.  Good luck and thank you for reviewing the
tutorial!

-Mark


On Mon, 26 May 2003, Ken Bloom wrote:

>
> On 2003.05.26 13:59, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > Hello folks.  I wrote a Autoconf/Automake tutorial for beginners.
> > Can
> > you
> > guys review and get back to me with corrections/suggestions?  Thanks!
> >
> >    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:
> .
> .
> .
> 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
> 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
> found before.
>
>
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