-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dan Smithers on 1/5/2009 5:01 AM: > My goal is to be able to set up parallel debug and release builds for > the different architectures. Yes, that is provided by VPATH builds, provided by Automake. > I would like to be able to build and link > without having to "install" until I'm happy with the work. Yes, that is possible with DESTDIR support, also provided by using Automake. > > I would also like to be able to build the complete project from the top > level and also build sub-projects individually. Yes, that is provided by Autoconf. > > I think that autotools will be able to do all this, but get a bit > puzzled from time to time. Perhaps reading this tutorial will help: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Autotools-Introduction > > I would also like to avoid having auto-generatable files in revision > control as much as possible. What are the minimum files needed for this? Keep configure.ac, Makefile.am, and COPYING under control, everything else is generated. (Technically, Automake can generate a default COPYING with the latest GPL, but it also issues a warning, as that is not always the right action; you are better off providing an explicit COPYING, which Automake will never overwrite). > > the project structure is > > my_proj/build_<arch>_<debug> > /configure.in Use configure.ac, not configure.in. > /Makefile.in generated from Makefile.am by automake. > /Makefile.am > /sub_proj1/configure.in configure.ac... > > Sometimes it seems to use Makefile.in and others Makefile.am. What is > the difference? and can I set it to use the same skeleton file for all uses? Makefile.in is the input to Autoconf. It can either be hand-written or generated from Makefile.am by Automake; if you plan on using all the autotools rather than just Autoconf, I'd recommend the latter. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkliBkEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDiRwCdEtZdEqvnmfO+OMlS9haEM/u4 UIgAn0ukcgQGj94w1P0pJFEr9MVPA360 =GsjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
