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GNU Autoconf creates a shell script `configure` that is used to configure software for compilation for UNIX-like operating systems.

GNU Autoconf creates a shell script configure that is used to configure software for compilation for UNIX-like operating systems. It is extensible through the use of shell script and m4 macros. It is frequently used with GNU Automake and GNU Libtool (collectively known as Autotools).

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Using rake with a non-ruby project

A workmate floated the idea of using rake as a build system for a non-ruby project. Is it possible to extend rake to compliment other languages where the autoconf toolset would usually be used?
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how to create binary and .so using libtool

I have a set of cpp files that I want to compile directly into a binary and also to compile into a shared library. I have bin_PROGRAMS=mybin lib_LTLIBRARIES=libmylib.la COMMON_SOURCES=f1.cpp f2.cpp f3.cpp mybin_SOURCES=main.cpp…
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Does a list of all known target triplets in use exist?

When cross compiling tools, you will often have to provide "a target triplet". Example given i686-pc-linux-gnu arm-none-linux-gnueabi powerpc-unknown-linux and so on... These triplets, which are sometimes in fact four components, have the…
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Makefile.in and variable substitution

In Makefile.in I see variable definition where an external variable name is enclosed between two @ symbols # @configure_input@ package = @PACKAGE_NAME@ Where those external variables come from? Also, I couldn't find in GNU manual what does exactly…
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How to test a C++ library usability in configure.in?

I'm working on a C++ project on GNU/Linux and I'm looking for a way to test the existence and usability of IBM Informix's library with the Autotools - namely, editing a configure.in. I don't have experience with Autotools, so basically I'm picking…
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How can I use AC_REVISION with Git?

When using Autoconf in a project managed with Subversion, I would put this code in configure.ac: AC_REVISION($Revision: 1234 $) With svn:keywords Revision, AC_REVISION would insert the revision number of configure.ac into the generated configure…
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How to select the autoconf build directory?

Is there a way to set where autoconf generates the object files. I would like to have autoconf create all object files in a src/build/ instead of src/ I've tried setting VPATH but that doesn't seem to do anything. VPATH = build
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How to generate a source file when building using autotools

With Make, I do something like generated.c: input.txt generator ./generator input.txt > generated.c How would I get equivalent functionality out of autotools? (removing generated.c on cleaning would also be a bonus).
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Why doesn't autoconf pass the AC_CHECK_HEADER test when the .h is file clearly available?

I am having a bear of a time getting autoconf to check for the presence of a particular header file. Let's call the header dependency "inky.h", and let's say that inky is a library that was installed (seperately) with the prefix set to "/usr/local".…
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how to compile MPI and non-MPI version of the same program with automake?

I have a C++ code that can be compiled with MPI support depending on a certain preprocessor flag; missing the appropriate flag, the sources compile to a non-parallel version. I would like to setup the Makefile.am so that it compiles both…
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Should I include configure and makefile in a github repository?

We recently moved from subversion to git, and then to Github, for several open source projects. Github was nice in that it provided a lot of functionality. One of the things I particularly like is the ability to download tags as zip or .tar.gz…
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Writing `configure` file for an r package

I am writing an r package which provides a wrapper around the libSBML C library. I am using the rcppgsl package as a reference, which looks for the location of header files and the library files for GNU Scientific Library GSL and uses that…
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Injecting mercurial changeset as version information in a C executable

I would like the executables for a project I am working on to have the latest mercurial changeset recorded so that when a user complains about buggy behavior, I can track which version they are using. Some of my executables are Python and others are…
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autoconf with -pthread

Greetings. I am trying to create an autoconf configure script that automatically checks for which pthread option to use and, ideally, specifies -pthread when compiling with gcc. It was my hope that AX_PTHREAD would work, but neither seems to work on…
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How to get absolute path to top build directory in autoconf configure.ac?

I am working on a project which requires a subproject which has its own makefile and configure.ac. The subproject is a program which is used to generate source files for the main project. There is an option to disable the building of this project…
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