Hello, I'm doing something in in assembler (with gas), I'm new to it, and always wanted to get into the autotools thing as well, so my code can be easily shared and hopefully ported. Been reading the autobook, info manuals for autoconf/automake, etc (haven't finished yet). My code is not linking to libc at the moment, so most of the advanced things autotools provide are not applicable. Since by itself gas doesn't provide from any extensive macro-programming procedure, I think the best way to go is gonna be preprocessing with cpp, so I can get advantage on configuration headers trough autoconf/automake (which I'm refering to autotools in here), and then compile by with `as', and link with ld. My question is if there's anyway I can "strip" things down in terms of the c language part specifically, so I can have more control over it, whilst it allows me a faster understanding. I'll put an example, since my english can get to be quite bad. Let's say I just need from autotools to compile an assembler program, which could very well be a tiny implementation of wget, so it only uses `socketcall' family system-calls, such as socket, connect, well, also recv and send. Then I might need to know target host's endiannes, and for ease, let's say this app. is only for linuxes, as I know other unixes use different tcp/ip implementations. Autotools is perfect for things like this, as far as I understand, I can either create and compile a minimal assembler program (remeber where are not linking to c and prefer not having any libc around that makes this easier for a newbie) or somehow with shell procedures, or even natively, as I've read autoconf does it within the autoconf macros archive. In that case it would be perfect if I could be able to generate a really minimal autotools project, so I can clearly see every single detail and study it deeply, and then grow as the situation needs it. I hope I'm explaining myslef properly. So I wonder if anybody can tell me something about, or can provide some sort of pointers or comments, which would be much appreciated. Kind Regards, Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
