Top "Automake" questions

Automake is a tool provided by GNU for the purpose of automating the generation of portable, configurable Makefiles.

What are Makefile.am and Makefile.in?

These two files are mostly seen in open source projects. What are they for, and how do they work?

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How to write multiple conditions in Makefile.am with "else if"

I want to compile my project with autoconf/automake. There are 2 conditions defined in my configure.ac AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_…

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How to overcome "'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system" warning?

Im trying to run a c++ program on github. (available at the following link https://github.com/mortehu/text-classifier) I …

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Append compile flags to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS while configuration/make

The project that I am trying to build has default flags CFLAGS = -Wall -g -O2 CXXFLAGS = -g -O2 I need …

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Build 32bit on 64 bit Linux using an automake configure script?

I'm using a 64bit system but want a set of 32bit binaries. What options must I pass to a configure …

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GNU autotools: Debug/Release targets?

I've been looking for this for a while: I'm currently converting a medium-size program to autotools, coming from an Eclipse-based …

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Directory structure for a C++ library

I am working on a C++ library. Ultimately, I would like to make it publicly available for multiple platforms (Linux …

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Error in automake

I’ve trying to create install package for hello world sample C program. I’ve done following staps. autoscan mv …

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User of autotools-generated tarball gets error message: aclocal-1.13: command not found

I am distributing a tarball with installation scripts generated by autoconf version 2.69. Works fine on many different machines. Now a …

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Autotools - tar This does not look like a tar archive

After running make distcheck I get the message that I have successfully built the package and is ready for distribution. …

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