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7 Building Programs and Libraries

A large part of Automake’s functionality is dedicated to making it easy to build C programs and libraries.

• Building a program
• Building a library
• Special handling for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA
• Building a Shared Library
• Variables used when building a program
• Yacc and Lex support
• C++ and other languages
• Automatic de-ANSI-fication
• Automatic dependency tracking