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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. An Introduction to the Autotools
- 2.1 Introducing the GNU Build System
- 2.2 Use Cases for the GNU Build System
- 2.3 How Autotools Help
- 2.4 A Small Hello World
  - 2.4.1 Creating ‘amhello-1.0.tar.gz’
  - 2.4.2 ‘amhello-1.0’ Explained
3. General ideas
- 3.1 General Operation
- 3.2 Strictness
- 3.3 The Uniform Naming Scheme
- 3.4 Staying below the command line length limit
- 3.5 How derived variables are named
- 3.6 Variables reserved for the user
- 3.7 Programs automake might require
4. Some example packages
- 4.1 A simple example, start to finish
- 4.2 Building true and false
5. Creating a ‘Makefile.in’
6. Scanning ‘configure.ac’
- 6.1 Configuration requirements
- 6.2 Other things Automake recognizes
- 6.3 Auto-generating aclocal.m4
- 6.4 Autoconf macros supplied with Automake
7. Directories
- 7.1 Recursing subdirectories
- 7.2 Conditional Subdirectories
- 7.3 An Alternative Approach to Subdirectories
- 7.4 Nesting Packages
8. Building Programs and Libraries
- 8.1 Building a program
  - 8.1.1 Defining program sources
  - 8.1.2 Linking the program
  - 8.1.3 Conditional compilation of sources
  - 8.1.4 Conditional compilation of programs
- 8.2 Building a library
- 8.3 Building a Shared Library
  - 8.3.1 The Libtool Concept
  - 8.3.2 Building Libtool Libraries
  - 8.3.3 Building Libtool Libraries Conditionally
  - 8.3.4 Libtool Libraries with Conditional Sources
  - 8.3.5 Libtool Convenience Libraries
  - 8.3.6 Libtool Modules
  - 8.3.7 _LIBADD, _LDFLAGS, and _LIBTOOLFLAGS
  - 8.3.8 LTLIBOBJS and LTALLOCA
  - 8.3.9 Common Issues Related to Libtool's Use
    - 8.3.9.1 Error: ‘required file `./ltmain.sh' not found’
    - 8.3.9.2 Objects ‘created with both libtool and without’
- 8.4 Program and Library Variables
- 8.5 Default _SOURCES
- 8.6 Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
- 8.7 Variables used when building a program
- 8.8 Yacc and Lex support
- 8.9 C++ Support
- 8.10 Objective C Support
- 8.11 Unified Parallel C Support
- 8.12 Assembly Support
- 8.13 Fortran 77 Support
  - 8.13.1 Preprocessing Fortran 77
  - 8.13.2 Compiling Fortran 77 Files
  - 8.13.3 Mixing Fortran 77 With C and C++
    - 8.13.3.1 How the Linker is Chosen
- 8.14 Fortran 9x Support
  - 8.14.1 Compiling Fortran 9x Files
- 8.15 Java Support
- 8.16 Vala Support
- 8.17 Support for Other Languages
- 8.18 Automatic de-ANSI-fication
- 8.19 Automatic dependency tracking
- 8.20 Support for executable extensions
9. Other Derived Objects
- 9.1 Executable Scripts
- 9.2 Header files
- 9.3 Architecture-independent data files
- 9.4 Built Sources
  - 9.4.1 Built Sources Example
10. Other GNU Tools
- 10.1 Emacs Lisp
- 10.2 Gettext
- 10.3 Libtool
- 10.4 Java
- 10.5 Python
11. Building documentation
- 11.1 Texinfo
- 11.2 Man Pages
12. What Gets Installed
- 12.1 Basics of Installation
- 12.2 The Two Parts of Install
- 12.3 Extending Installation
- 12.4 Staged Installs
- 12.5 Install Rules for the User
13. What Gets Cleaned
14. What Goes in a Distribution
- 14.1 Basics of Distribution
- 14.2 Fine-grained Distribution Control
- 14.3 The dist Hook
- 14.4 Checking the Distribution
- 14.5 The Types of Distributions
15. Support for test suites
- 15.1 Simple Tests
- 15.2 Simple Tests using ‘parallel-tests’
- 15.3 DejaGnu Tests
- 15.4 Install Tests
16. Rebuilding Makefiles
17. Changing Automake's Behavior
18. Miscellaneous Rules
- 18.1 Interfacing to etags
- 18.2 Handling new file extensions
- 18.3 Support for Multilibs
19. Include
20. Conditionals
- 20.1 Usage of Conditionals
- 20.2 Limits of Conditionals
21. The effect of ‘--gnu’ and ‘--gnits’
22. The effect of ‘--cygnus’
23. When Automake Isn't Enough
- 23.1 Extending Automake Rules
- 23.2 Third-Party ‘Makefile’s
24. Distributing ‘Makefile.in’s
25. Automake API Versioning
26. Upgrading a Package to a Newer Automake Version
27. Frequently Asked Questions about Automake
- 27.1 CVS and generated files
- 27.2 missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
- 27.3 Why doesn't Automake support wildcards?
- 27.4 Limitations on File Names
- 27.5 Files left in build directory after distclean
- 27.6 Flag Variables Ordering
- 27.7 Why are object files sometimes renamed?
- 27.8 Per-Object Flags Emulation
- 27.9 Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs
- 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations
- 27.11 Debugging Make Rules
28. History of Automake
- 28.1 Timeline
- 28.2 Dependency Tracking in Automake
- 28.3 Release Statistics
A. Copying This Manual
- A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
B. Indices
- B.1 Macro Index
- B.2 Variable Index
- B.3 General Index

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