Autotools

The autotools collection is a set of tools that make it easy to build and install programs from a source distribution.

Installing a package built using autotools

To install a package built with autotools, the installer issues the following commands to [configure], build, test and install:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

Tools

• autoconf - This tool creates a configure script from the configure.ac file
• autoheader - This tool creates a template header for configure
• automake - This tool is used to generate Makefile build information files
• autoproject - This tool creates a skeleton source package for a new program
• autoreconf
• autoscan - This tool generates a configure.ac file for a software package.
• autotoolset - This tool generating various boilerplate files from which you can develop software
• autoupdate
• libtool - This tool creates a consistent portable interface for using shared libraries

How To

• Autotools: Configuration Names