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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-automake" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="automake.html"?>
12
13 <title>Automake-&automake-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake">
16 <primary sortas="a-Automake">Automake</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <sect2 role="package">
20 <title/>
21
22 <para>The Automake package contains programs for generating Makefiles
23 for use with Autoconf.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29 <seglistitem>
30 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
32 </seglistitem>
33 </segmentedlist>
34
35 <segmentedlist>
36 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
37
38 <seglistitem>
39 <seg>Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl,
40 and Sed</seg>
41 </seglistitem>
42 </segmentedlist>
43
44 </sect2>
45
46 <sect2 role="installation">
47 <title>Installation of Automake</title>
48
49 <para os="a">Prepare Automake for compilation:</para>
50
51<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para os="b">Compile the package:</para>
54
55<screen os="c"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para os="d">To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.
58 This takes a long time, about 5 SBUs.</para>
59
60 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
61
62<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
63
64 </sect2>
65
66 <sect2 id="contents-automake" role="content">
67 <title>Contents of Automake</title>
68
69 <segmentedlist>
70 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
71
72 <seglistitem>
73 <seg>acinstall, aclocal, aclocal-&automake-version;, automake,
74 automake-&automake-version;, compile, config.guess, config.sub,
75 depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs,
76 py-compile, symlink-tree, and ylwrap</seg>
77 </seglistitem>
78 </segmentedlist>
79
80 <variablelist>
81 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
82 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
83 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
84
85 <varlistentry id="acinstall">
86 <term><command>acinstall</command></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>A script that installs aclocal-style M4 files</para>
89 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake acinstall">
90 <primary sortas="b-acinstall">acinstall</primary>
91 </indexterm>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
95 <varlistentry id="aclocal">
96 <term><command>aclocal</command></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Generates <filename>aclocal.m4</filename> files based on the
99 contents of <filename>configure.in</filename> files</para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal">
101 <primary sortas="b-aclocal">aclocal</primary>
102 </indexterm>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry id="aclocal-version">
107 <term><command>aclocal-&automake-version;</command></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>A hard link to <command>aclocal</command></para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal-version">
111 <primary
112 sortas="b-aclocal-&automake-version;">aclocal-&automake-version;</primary>
113 </indexterm>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116
117 <varlistentry id="automake">
118 <term><command>automake</command></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>A tool for automatically generating
121 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files from
122 <filename>Makefile.am</filename> files. To create all the
123 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files for a package, run this
124 program in the top-level directory. By scanning the
125 <filename>configure.in</filename> file, it automatically finds
126 each appropriate <filename>Makefile.am</filename> file and generates
127 the corresponding <filename>Makefile.in</filename> file</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake">
129 <primary sortas="b-automake">automake</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="automake-version">
135 <term><command>automake-&automake-version;</command></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>A hard link to <command>automake</command></para>
138 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake-version">
139 <primary
140 sortas="b-automake-&automake-version;">automake-&automake-version;</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="compile">
146 <term><command>compile</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>A wrapper for compilers</para>
149 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake compile">
150 <primary sortas="b-compile">compile</primary>
151 </indexterm>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry id="config.guess">
156 <term><command>config.guess</command></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for
159 the given build, host, or target architecture</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.guess">
161 <primary sortas="b-config.guess">config.guess</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="config.sub">
167 <term><command>config.sub</command></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>A configuration validation subroutine script</para>
170 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.sub">
171 <primary sortas="b-config.sub">config.sub</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="depcomp">
177 <term><command>depcomp</command></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>A script for compiling a program so that dependency information
180 is generated in addition to the desired output</para>
181 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake depcomp">
182 <primary sortas="b-depcomp">depcomp</primary>
183 </indexterm>
184 </listitem>
185 </varlistentry>
186
187 <varlistentry id="elisp-comp">
188 <term><command>elisp-comp</command></term>
189 <listitem>
190 <para>Byte-compiles Emacs Lisp code</para>
191 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake elisp-comp">
192 <primary sortas="b-elisp-comp">elisp-comp</primary>
193 </indexterm>
194 </listitem>
195 </varlistentry>
196
197 <varlistentry id="install-sh">
198 <term><command>install-sh</command></term>
199 <listitem>
200 <para>A script that installs a program, script, or data file</para>
201 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake install-sh">
202 <primary sortas="b-install-sh">install-sh</primary>
203 </indexterm>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry id="mdate-sh">
208 <term><command>mdate-sh</command></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>A script that prints the modification time of a file or
211 directory</para>
212 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mdate-sh">
213 <primary sortas="b-mdate-sh">mdate-sh</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215 </listitem>
216 </varlistentry>
217
218 <varlistentry id="missing">
219 <term><command>missing</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>A script acting as a common stub for missing GNU programs during
222 an installation</para>
223 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake missing">
224 <primary sortas="b-missing">missing</primary>
225 </indexterm>
226 </listitem>
227 </varlistentry>
228
229 <varlistentry id="mkinstalldirs">
230 <term><command>mkinstalldirs</command></term>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>A script that creates a directory tree</para>
233 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mkinstalldirs">
234 <primary sortas="b-mkinstalldirs">mkinstalldirs</primary>
235 </indexterm>
236 </listitem>
237 </varlistentry>
238
239 <varlistentry id="py-compile">
240 <term><command>py-compile</command></term>
241 <listitem>
242 <para>Compiles a Python program</para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake py-compile">
244 <primary sortas="b-py-compile">py-compile</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 <varlistentry id="symlink-tree">
250 <term><command>symlink-tree</command></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>A script to create a symlink tree of a directory tree</para>
253 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake symlink-tree">
254 <primary sortas="b-symlink-tree">symlink-tree</primary>
255 </indexterm>
256 </listitem>
257 </varlistentry>
258
259 <varlistentry id="ylwrap">
260 <term><command>ylwrap</command></term>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>A wrapper for <command>lex</command> and
263 <command>yacc</command></para>
264 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake ylwrap">
265 <primary sortas="b-ylwrap">ylwrap</primary>
266 </indexterm>
267 </listitem>
268 </varlistentry>
269
270 </variablelist>
271
272 </sect2>
273
274</sect1>
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