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[bf8c11f]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 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-automake" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="automake.html"?>
10
11 <title>Automake-&automake-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake">
14 <primary sortas="a-Automake">Automake</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Automake package contains programs for generating Makefiles
21 for use with Autoconf.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Automake</title>
27
28 <para os="a">Prepare Automake for compilation:</para>
29
[e6423a01]30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]31
[e6423a01]32 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]33
[e6423a01]34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]35
[e6423a01]36 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
[dbe81be]37 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
[bf8c11f]38
[e6423a01]39 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]40
[e6423a01]41<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]42
43 </sect2>
44
45 <sect2 id="contents-automake" role="content">
46 <title>Contents of Automake</title>
47
48 <segmentedlist>
49 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
50
51 <seglistitem>
[71b8c92]52 <seg>acinstall, aclocal, aclocal-&automake-version2;, automake,
53 automake-&automake-version2;, compile, config.guess, config.sub,
[bf8c11f]54 depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs,
55 py-compile, symlink-tree, and ylwrap</seg>
56 </seglistitem>
57 </segmentedlist>
58
59 <variablelist>
60 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
61 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
62 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
63
64 <varlistentry id="acinstall">
65 <term><command>acinstall</command></term>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>A script that installs aclocal-style M4 files</para>
68 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake acinstall">
69 <primary sortas="b-acinstall">acinstall</primary>
70 </indexterm>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
74 <varlistentry id="aclocal">
75 <term><command>aclocal</command></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Generates <filename>aclocal.m4</filename> files based on the
78 contents of <filename>configure.in</filename> files</para>
79 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal">
80 <primary sortas="b-aclocal">aclocal</primary>
81 </indexterm>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
85 <varlistentry id="aclocal-version">
[71b8c92]86 <term><command>aclocal-&automake-version2;</command></term>
[bf8c11f]87 <listitem>
88 <para>A hard link to <command>aclocal</command></para>
89 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal-version">
90 <primary
91 sortas="b-aclocal-&automake-version;">aclocal-&automake-version;</primary>
92 </indexterm>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry id="automake">
97 <term><command>automake</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>A tool for automatically generating
100 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files from
101 <filename>Makefile.am</filename> files. To create all the
102 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files for a package, run this
103 program in the top-level directory. By scanning the
104 <filename>configure.in</filename> file, it automatically finds
105 each appropriate <filename>Makefile.am</filename> file and generates
106 the corresponding <filename>Makefile.in</filename> file</para>
107 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake">
108 <primary sortas="b-automake">automake</primary>
109 </indexterm>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
113 <varlistentry id="automake-version">
[71b8c92]114 <term><command>automake-&automake-version2;</command></term>
[bf8c11f]115 <listitem>
116 <para>A hard link to <command>automake</command></para>
117 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake-version">
118 <primary
119 sortas="b-automake-&automake-version;">automake-&automake-version;</primary>
120 </indexterm>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry id="compile">
125 <term><command>compile</command></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>A wrapper for compilers</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake compile">
129 <primary sortas="b-compile">compile</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="config.guess">
135 <term><command>config.guess</command></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for
138 the given build, host, or target architecture</para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.guess">
140 <primary sortas="b-config.guess">config.guess</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="config.sub">
146 <term><command>config.sub</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>A configuration validation subroutine script</para>
149 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.sub">
150 <primary sortas="b-config.sub">config.sub</primary>
151 </indexterm>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry id="depcomp">
156 <term><command>depcomp</command></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>A script for compiling a program so that dependency information
159 is generated in addition to the desired output</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake depcomp">
161 <primary sortas="b-depcomp">depcomp</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="elisp-comp">
167 <term><command>elisp-comp</command></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>Byte-compiles Emacs Lisp code</para>
170 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake elisp-comp">
171 <primary sortas="b-elisp-comp">elisp-comp</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="install-sh">
177 <term><command>install-sh</command></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>A script that installs a program, script, or data file</para>
180 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake install-sh">
181 <primary sortas="b-install-sh">install-sh</primary>
182 </indexterm>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry id="mdate-sh">
187 <term><command>mdate-sh</command></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>A script that prints the modification time of a file or
190 directory</para>
191 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mdate-sh">
192 <primary sortas="b-mdate-sh">mdate-sh</primary>
193 </indexterm>
194 </listitem>
195 </varlistentry>
196
197 <varlistentry id="missing">
198 <term><command>missing</command></term>
199 <listitem>
200 <para>A script acting as a common stub for missing GNU programs during
201 an installation</para>
202 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake missing">
203 <primary sortas="b-missing">missing</primary>
204 </indexterm>
205 </listitem>
206 </varlistentry>
207
208 <varlistentry id="mkinstalldirs">
209 <term><command>mkinstalldirs</command></term>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>A script that creates a directory tree</para>
212 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mkinstalldirs">
213 <primary sortas="b-mkinstalldirs">mkinstalldirs</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215 </listitem>
216 </varlistentry>
217
218 <varlistentry id="py-compile">
219 <term><command>py-compile</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>Compiles a Python program</para>
222 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake py-compile">
223 <primary sortas="b-py-compile">py-compile</primary>
224 </indexterm>
225 </listitem>
226 </varlistentry>
227
228 <varlistentry id="symlink-tree">
229 <term><command>symlink-tree</command></term>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>A script to create a symlink tree of a directory tree</para>
232 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake symlink-tree">
233 <primary sortas="b-symlink-tree">symlink-tree</primary>
234 </indexterm>
235 </listitem>
236 </varlistentry>
237
238 <varlistentry id="ylwrap">
239 <term><command>ylwrap</command></term>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>A wrapper for <command>lex</command> and
242 <command>yacc</command></para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake ylwrap">
244 <primary sortas="b-ylwrap">ylwrap</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 </variablelist>
250
251 </sect2>
252
253</sect1>
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