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7.10 Assembly Support

Automake includes some support for assembly code.

The variable CCAS holds the name of the compiler used to build assembly code. This compiler must work a bit like a C compiler; in particular it must accept ‘-c’ and ‘-o’. The value of CCASFLAGS is passed to the compilation.

You are required to set CCAS and CCASFLAGS via configure.ac. The autoconf macro AM_PROG_AS will do this for you. Unless they are already set, it simply sets CCAS to the C compiler and CCASFLAGS to the C compiler flags.

Only the suffixes ‘.s’ and ‘.S’ are recognized by automake as being files containing assembly code.