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.

Autoconf -- including a static library (newbie)

I am trying to migrate my application from manual build to autoconf, which is working very nicely so far. But …

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Adding a path to AC_CHECK_LIB

I have the following problem with configure.ac: I would like to add a library search path because the libraries …

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How can an autotools user specify a combination of static & dynamic linking?

I'm building a program with autoconf, automake, and libtool. My work requires that I statically link (most) libraries. This hasn't …

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Autotools build fails due to subdir-objects option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

I'm currently working on a C++ project which relies on recursive automake for building. I want to build a shared …

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How to set a define through "./configure" with Autoconf

I have one project that can generate two diferent applications based on one define. libfoo_la_CXXFLAGS = -DMYDEFINE I have …

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How to install and use libtool shared library (.lo files)?

So after I ran libtool and got out a libfoo.lo and foo.o file from my library source, how …

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why autogen.sh failed even with the correct autoconf?

autogen.sh failed, the output shows that i need an autoconf of higher version. but in fact i have a 2.6…

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How to give options for "configure" using yocto recipes?

I want write a recipe in yocto to build my custom component. In that i would like to enable some …

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Autotools include path

I have a directory structure like Makefile.am Configure.ac src/ hello.c Makefile.am include/ hello.h How to …

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How do I get autotools to compile with the Intel compiler?

I want my code to compile with the Intel compiler(s) or with gcc/g++ depending on a configure argument. …

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