For further reference: don't forget Alexandre Duret-Lutz's excellent Autotools Tutorial (https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html). IMHO people should start with this, then the Autotools Mythbuster. Regards On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Sep 2014, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > > * the good old "Goats Book" which is also available online, and seems > > to have received an update lately: > > > > https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html > > > > I still refer to my paper copy every once in a while, but by now > > that one's so old that a lot of things need to be cross-checked > > against current autotools documentation > > This one is available under the OPL v1.0 with no extra options > (http://opencontent.org/openpub/). > > It was updated in 2006 to address autoconf-2.59, automake-1.9.6, libtool > 1.5.22. This _should_ be fresh enough to be useful. > > If someone looks it over and states that it is indeed useful for recent > autotools, I believe a pointer to this book should be added to the autotools > (autoconf, automake, libtool) websites. > > In fact, the Debian project had it packaged in "non-free" for quite a > while[1]. It was removed in 2008, because "non-free" was carrying the > "unofficial" 1.4.4 edition from http://mdcc.cx/autobook/, which is obsolete > as it was never updated to the 1.5 official release. > > > [1] The Debian DFSG when applied to documentation is more restrictive than > the GNU free documentation license guidelines. The autobook complies to the > GNU requirements for a free documentation license, at least according to > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeDocumentationLicenses > since no options of the OPL were exercised in the autobook license. > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
