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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>&dependencies;</segtitle>
27
28 <seglistitem>
29 <seg>Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl,
30 and Sed</seg>
31 </seglistitem>
32 </segmentedlist>
33
34 </sect2>
35
36 <sect2 role="installation">
37 <title>Installation of Automake</title>
38
39 <para os="a">Prepare Automake for compilation:</para>
40
41<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para os="b">Compile the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="c"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
46
47 <para os="d">To test the results, issue:
48 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
49
50 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
51
52<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
53
54 </sect2>
55
56 <sect2 id="contents-automake" role="content">
57 <title>Contents of Automake</title>
58
59 <segmentedlist>
60 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
61
62 <seglistitem>
63 <seg>acinstall, aclocal, aclocal-&automake-version;, automake,
64 automake-&automake-version;, compile, config.guess, config.sub,
65 depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs,
66 py-compile, symlink-tree, and ylwrap</seg>
67 </seglistitem>
68 </segmentedlist>
69
70 <variablelist>
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75 <varlistentry id="acinstall">
76 <term><command>acinstall</command></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>A script that installs aclocal-style M4 files</para>
79 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake acinstall">
80 <primary sortas="b-acinstall">acinstall</primary>
81 </indexterm>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
85 <varlistentry id="aclocal">
86 <term><command>aclocal</command></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>Generates <filename>aclocal.m4</filename> files based on the
89 contents of <filename>configure.in</filename> files</para>
90 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal">
91 <primary sortas="b-aclocal">aclocal</primary>
92 </indexterm>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry id="aclocal-version">
97 <term><command>aclocal-&automake-version;</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>A hard link to <command>aclocal</command></para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal-version">
101 <primary
102 sortas="b-aclocal-&automake-version;">aclocal-&automake-version;</primary>
103 </indexterm>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 <varlistentry id="automake">
108 <term><command>automake</command></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>A tool for automatically generating
111 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files from
112 <filename>Makefile.am</filename> files. To create all the
113 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files for a package, run this
114 program in the top-level directory. By scanning the
115 <filename>configure.in</filename> file, it automatically finds
116 each appropriate <filename>Makefile.am</filename> file and generates
117 the corresponding <filename>Makefile.in</filename> file</para>
118 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake">
119 <primary sortas="b-automake">automake</primary>
120 </indexterm>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry id="automake-version">
125 <term><command>automake-&automake-version;</command></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>A hard link to <command>automake</command></para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake-version">
129 <primary
130 sortas="b-automake-&automake-version;">automake-&automake-version;</primary>
131 </indexterm>
132 </listitem>
133 </varlistentry>
134
135 <varlistentry id="compile">
136 <term><command>compile</command></term>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>A wrapper for compilers</para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake compile">
140 <primary sortas="b-compile">compile</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="config.guess">
146 <term><command>config.guess</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for
149 the given build, host, or target architecture</para>
150 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.guess">
151 <primary sortas="b-config.guess">config.guess</primary>
152 </indexterm>
153 </listitem>
154 </varlistentry>
155
156 <varlistentry id="config.sub">
157 <term><command>config.sub</command></term>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>A configuration validation subroutine script</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.sub">
161 <primary sortas="b-config.sub">config.sub</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="depcomp">
167 <term><command>depcomp</command></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>A script for compiling a program so that dependency information
170 is generated in addition to the desired output</para>
171 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake depcomp">
172 <primary sortas="b-depcomp">depcomp</primary>
173 </indexterm>
174 </listitem>
175 </varlistentry>
176
177 <varlistentry id="elisp-comp">
178 <term><command>elisp-comp</command></term>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>Byte-compiles Emacs Lisp code</para>
181 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake elisp-comp">
182 <primary sortas="b-elisp-comp">elisp-comp</primary>
183 </indexterm>
184 </listitem>
185 </varlistentry>
186
187 <varlistentry id="install-sh">
188 <term><command>install-sh</command></term>
189 <listitem>
190 <para>A script that installs a program, script, or data file</para>
191 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake install-sh">
192 <primary sortas="b-install-sh">install-sh</primary>
193 </indexterm>
194 </listitem>
195 </varlistentry>
196
197 <varlistentry id="mdate-sh">
198 <term><command>mdate-sh</command></term>
199 <listitem>
200 <para>A script that prints the modification time of a file or
201 directory</para>
202 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mdate-sh">
203 <primary sortas="b-mdate-sh">mdate-sh</primary>
204 </indexterm>
205 </listitem>
206 </varlistentry>
207
208 <varlistentry id="missing">
209 <term><command>missing</command></term>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>A script acting as a common stub for missing GNU programs during
212 an installation</para>
213 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake missing">
214 <primary sortas="b-missing">missing</primary>
215 </indexterm>
216 </listitem>
217 </varlistentry>
218
219 <varlistentry id="mkinstalldirs">
220 <term><command>mkinstalldirs</command></term>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>A script that creates a directory tree</para>
223 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mkinstalldirs">
224 <primary sortas="b-mkinstalldirs">mkinstalldirs</primary>
225 </indexterm>
226 </listitem>
227 </varlistentry>
228
229 <varlistentry id="py-compile">
230 <term><command>py-compile</command></term>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>Compiles a Python program</para>
233 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake py-compile">
234 <primary sortas="b-py-compile">py-compile</primary>
235 </indexterm>
236 </listitem>
237 </varlistentry>
238
239 <varlistentry id="symlink-tree">
240 <term><command>symlink-tree</command></term>
241 <listitem>
242 <para>A script to create a symlink tree of a directory tree</para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake symlink-tree">
244 <primary sortas="b-symlink-tree">symlink-tree</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 <varlistentry id="ylwrap">
250 <term><command>ylwrap</command></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>A wrapper for <command>lex</command> and
253 <command>yacc</command></para>
254 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake ylwrap">
255 <primary sortas="b-ylwrap">ylwrap</primary>
256 </indexterm>
257 </listitem>
258 </varlistentry>
259
260 </variablelist>
261
262 </sect2>
263
264</sect1>
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