lfs/appendixa/automake-desc.xml
2002-02-06 23:15:46 +00:00

30 lines
1.1 KiB
XML

<sect2><title>Contents of automake-&automake-contversion;</title>
<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>aclocal and automake</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
<sect4><title>aclocal</title>
<para>Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in
packages; some of them are actually required by Automake in certain
situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file;
otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.</para>
<para>The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files
based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient
way to get Automake-provided macros, without having to search around.
Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use
by other packages.</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>automake</title>
<para>To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake
program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will
automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning
configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.</para></sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>