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GNU Automake

This file documents the GNU Automake package for creating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles from template files. This edition documents version 1.0.

• Introduction
• Creating a Makefile.in
• General ideas
• Scanning configure.in
• The top-level Makefile.am
• Building Programs and Libraries
• Other Derived Objects
• Building documentation
• What Gets Installed
• What Gets Cleaned
• What Goes in a Distribution
• Support for test suites
• Changing Automake’s Behavior
• Miscellaneous Rules
• When Automake Isn’t Enough
• Distributing Makefile.ins
• Some example packages
• Some ideas for the future
• Index of Variables
• Index of Configure Variables and Macros
• Index of Targets