Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. It is made by the Free Software Foundation as one of GNU programs, and is part of the GNU build system. The makefiles produced follow the GNU Coding Standards. A programming tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, or maintain other programs and applications. ... make is a computer program that automates the compilation of programs whose files are dependent on each other. ... make is a computer program that automates the compilation of programs whose files are dependent on each other. ... The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa GNU is a recursive acronym for GNUs Not Unix. The GNU project was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete operating system -- called the GNU system or simply GNU -- that is free software, meaning that users... The GNU build system is a suite of tools produced by the GNU project that assist in making packages portable to many UNIX-like systems. ... make is a computer program that automates the compilation of programs whose files are dependent on each other. ... The GNU Coding Standards document the programming style used by the GNU Project. ...

It is written in Perl, a programming language and must be used with autoconf, another GNU tool. Automake contains the following commands: Programming Republic of Perl logo Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below), is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of UNIX-like systems. ...

• aclocal
• automake

Command line options

• --add-missing, -a: Tells automake to regenerate the files
• ./install-sh
• ./mkinstalldirs
• ./missing
• ./depcomp.

See also

• imake

References

• Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey: Gnu Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool, Sams, ISBN 1-57870-190-2

External links

• Automake home page (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/)
• Manual (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html)
• Online version of The Goat Book (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html)
• Tutorial "Learning Autoconf and Automake (http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/tutorials/autoconf/)" by Eleftherios Gkioulekas
• Article "Using Automake and Autoconf with C++ (http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml)" by Murray Cumming
• Autotoolset home page (http://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/)