[TriLUG] LUGlet Suggestion: Autotools Howto Lab

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

>> I have an idea of something I would like to learn more about: how to use
>> autotools to make make and configure scripts automagically.

I've come on this late. In case this hasn't been mentioned, 
it's all documented at

http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html

where each page of the book is a separate html page, ie you 
have to hit "print" 260 times to get 260 single sided pages. 
Alternately, you can download the documentation in texinfo 
format when you'll find that it has lots of syntax errors 
when compiled with makeinfo/texinfo. I managed to print it 
out some other way (forget what, but I got it out in 
postscript format). This took a couple of days to get the 
documentation. Then I found the documentation to be more 
philosophy of doing it, rather than doing it.

You've got your work cut out to learn this stuff.

Joe

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