You know, I've recently finished reading the manuals for m4, libtool, autoconf, and automake. After 1000 pages of reading, I was frustrated to walk away knowing very little more than I started with. I believe this is primarily due to the lack of examples and background context in the explanations presented in these manuals (m4 and libtool manuals were quite good, BTW - only the autotools manuals left much to be desired). I suggest we start a wiki page where people can post cookbook information - detailed examples of how to do common things. A good starting point would be FAQ and mailing list archives. The most frequently asked questions would be answered first. For example: 1. How to support debug build options, including symbols with no optimizations, specific debug constructs, like debug memory, etc. 2. How to support library, program, header and function checks only when specific options are enabled. 3. How to support specific tool optimization flags for fine tuning - those not handled by the existing macros. This is just the top three on my mind right now - these questions are posed all the time on the mailing list. It would be nice if some of these were answered in a cookbook fashion on a wiki page that could be edited - then others could add their triumphs to the pages as well. John _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf