4. Some example packages

This section contains two small examples.

The first example (see section A simple example, start to finish) assumes you have an existing project already using Autoconf, with handcrafted ‘Makefile’s, and that you want to convert it to using Automake. If you are discovering both tools, it is probably better that you look at the Hello World example presented earlier (see section A Small Hello World).

The second example (see section Building true and false) shows how two programs can be built from the same file, using different compilation parameters. It contains some technical digressions that are probably best skipped on first read.