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Automake

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
'Automake' automatically generates make files compliant with the GNU coding standards. It was inspired by the 4.4 BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Make file variables and targets. The input files are called Makefile.am; the output files are called Makefile.in. They are intended for use with autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done in your configure.in. This package also includes the "aclocal' program, which generates an 'aclocal.m4' based on the contents of 'configure.in.' It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism for augmenting autoconf.

Documentation

User manual available in HTML format from http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html

Related Projects

• Buildtool
• CMake
• FireMake
• Mfg
• NixMake
• Pkg-config
• Rpsl
• Smake
• Make
• Confix
• Libtool
• Autoconf

This is a GNU package

Download

Download version 1.11.1 (stable)
released on 8 December 2009

VCS Checkout

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \ checkout -d automake HEAD

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Program-build-automation:make-related
• Software-development:program-build-automation
• Use:software-development

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2orlater	Kelly Hopkins	11 December 2009

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Alexandre Duret-Lutz	Maintainer
Alexandre Oliva	Maintainer
Tom Tromey	Maintainer
Gnits Group	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
Developer,Support	E-mail	mailto:automake@gnu.org
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:bug-automake@gnu.org

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	Perl 5
Required to use	GNU autoconf
Required to build	Perl 5

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 29 January 2008.

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