Top "Autotools" questions

Autotools is a suite of programming tools (mainly autoconf, automake, and libtool) designed to assist in making source-code packages portable to many Unix-like systems.

How to create a 32-bit shared-library on a 64-bit platform with autotools

I'm using autotools to build my system, which consists primarily of a library. On 64-bit Red Hat platforms, I need …

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configure.in or configure.ac?

It seems that some autoconf projects use a configure.in file to generate a configure script, and some use configure.…

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Autotools : how to set global compilation flag

I have a project with several sources directories : src/A /B /C In each, the Makefile.am contains AM_CXXFLAGS = …

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Getting started with autotools

Anyone recommend how a person could get started with autotools in building a C project?

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configure does not recognize androideabi

I am trying to compile a library using android-ndk-r5 standalone toolchain and autotools. When doing a ./configure, it fails with: $ ./…

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How to override environment variables when running configure?

In any major package for Linux, running ./configure --help will output at the end: Some influential environment variables: CC C …

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How do you create tests for "make check" with GNU autotools

I'm using GNU autotools for the build system on a particular project. I want to start writing automated tests for …

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How to add a new library using Yocto

I am using Yocto and I just would like to integrate a new library in my project. I create a …

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Automake generating binaries to bin/ instead of in src/

I searched for the answer to this question but couldn't find any good. Maybe they're old and something has changed, …

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Why use build tools like Autotools when we can just write our own makefiles?

Recently, I switched my development environment from Windows to Linux. So far, I have only used Visual Studio for C++ …

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