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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 %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 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl,
28 and Sed</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of Automake</title>
36
37 <para os="a">Prepare Automake for compilation:</para>
38
39<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
40
41 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
42
43<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
46 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
47
48 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
49
50<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
51
52 </sect2>
53
54 <sect2 id="contents-automake" role="content">
55 <title>Contents of Automake</title>
56
57 <segmentedlist>
58 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
59
60 <seglistitem>
61 <seg>acinstall, aclocal, aclocal-&automake-version;, automake,
62 automake-&automake-version;, compile, config.guess, config.sub,
63 depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs,
64 py-compile, symlink-tree, and ylwrap</seg>
65 </seglistitem>
66 </segmentedlist>
67
68 <variablelist>
69 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
70 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
71 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
72
73 <varlistentry id="acinstall">
74 <term><command>acinstall</command></term>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>A script that installs aclocal-style M4 files</para>
77 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake acinstall">
78 <primary sortas="b-acinstall">acinstall</primary>
79 </indexterm>
80 </listitem>
81 </varlistentry>
82
83 <varlistentry id="aclocal">
84 <term><command>aclocal</command></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Generates <filename>aclocal.m4</filename> files based on the
87 contents of <filename>configure.in</filename> files</para>
88 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal">
89 <primary sortas="b-aclocal">aclocal</primary>
90 </indexterm>
91 </listitem>
92 </varlistentry>
93
94 <varlistentry id="aclocal-version">
95 <term><command>aclocal-&automake-version;</command></term>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>A hard link to <command>aclocal</command></para>
98 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake aclocal-version">
99 <primary
100 sortas="b-aclocal-&automake-version;">aclocal-&automake-version;</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="automake">
106 <term><command>automake</command></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>A tool for automatically generating
109 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files from
110 <filename>Makefile.am</filename> files. To create all the
111 <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files for a package, run this
112 program in the top-level directory. By scanning the
113 <filename>configure.in</filename> file, it automatically finds
114 each appropriate <filename>Makefile.am</filename> file and generates
115 the corresponding <filename>Makefile.in</filename> file</para>
116 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake">
117 <primary sortas="b-automake">automake</primary>
118 </indexterm>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121
122 <varlistentry id="automake-version">
123 <term><command>automake-&automake-version;</command></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>A hard link to <command>automake</command></para>
126 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake automake-version">
127 <primary
128 sortas="b-automake-&automake-version;">automake-&automake-version;</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 <varlistentry id="compile">
134 <term><command>compile</command></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>A wrapper for compilers</para>
137 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake compile">
138 <primary sortas="b-compile">compile</primary>
139 </indexterm>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry id="config.guess">
144 <term><command>config.guess</command></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for
147 the given build, host, or target architecture</para>
148 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.guess">
149 <primary sortas="b-config.guess">config.guess</primary>
150 </indexterm>
151 </listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153
154 <varlistentry id="config.sub">
155 <term><command>config.sub</command></term>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>A configuration validation subroutine script</para>
158 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake config.sub">
159 <primary sortas="b-config.sub">config.sub</primary>
160 </indexterm>
161 </listitem>
162 </varlistentry>
163
164 <varlistentry id="depcomp">
165 <term><command>depcomp</command></term>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>A script for compiling a program so that dependency information
168 is generated in addition to the desired output</para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake depcomp">
170 <primary sortas="b-depcomp">depcomp</primary>
171 </indexterm>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry id="elisp-comp">
176 <term><command>elisp-comp</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Byte-compiles Emacs Lisp code</para>
179 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake elisp-comp">
180 <primary sortas="b-elisp-comp">elisp-comp</primary>
181 </indexterm>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry id="install-sh">
186 <term><command>install-sh</command></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>A script that installs a program, script, or data file</para>
189 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake install-sh">
190 <primary sortas="b-install-sh">install-sh</primary>
191 </indexterm>
192 </listitem>
193 </varlistentry>
194
195 <varlistentry id="mdate-sh">
196 <term><command>mdate-sh</command></term>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>A script that prints the modification time of a file or
199 directory</para>
200 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mdate-sh">
201 <primary sortas="b-mdate-sh">mdate-sh</primary>
202 </indexterm>
203 </listitem>
204 </varlistentry>
205
206 <varlistentry id="missing">
207 <term><command>missing</command></term>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>A script acting as a common stub for missing GNU programs during
210 an installation</para>
211 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake missing">
212 <primary sortas="b-missing">missing</primary>
213 </indexterm>
214 </listitem>
215 </varlistentry>
216
217 <varlistentry id="mkinstalldirs">
218 <term><command>mkinstalldirs</command></term>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>A script that creates a directory tree</para>
221 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake mkinstalldirs">
222 <primary sortas="b-mkinstalldirs">mkinstalldirs</primary>
223 </indexterm>
224 </listitem>
225 </varlistentry>
226
227 <varlistentry id="py-compile">
228 <term><command>py-compile</command></term>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>Compiles a Python program</para>
231 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake py-compile">
232 <primary sortas="b-py-compile">py-compile</primary>
233 </indexterm>
234 </listitem>
235 </varlistentry>
236
237 <varlistentry id="symlink-tree">
238 <term><command>symlink-tree</command></term>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>A script to create a symlink tree of a directory tree</para>
241 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake symlink-tree">
242 <primary sortas="b-symlink-tree">symlink-tree</primary>
243 </indexterm>
244 </listitem>
245 </varlistentry>
246
247 <varlistentry id="ylwrap">
248 <term><command>ylwrap</command></term>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>A wrapper for <command>lex</command> and
251 <command>yacc</command></para>
252 <indexterm zone="ch-system-automake ylwrap">
253 <primary sortas="b-ylwrap">ylwrap</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 </variablelist>
259
260 </sect2>
261
262</sect1>
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