Resources
Here are some links to reference documents dealing with Autotools in general and Autoconf and Automake in particular.
- English
- French
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Here are some slides by a teacher from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télecoms about the Autotools.
- Japanese
This tutorial uses Autoconf 2.61 (November 2006) and Automake 1.10.1 (January 2008). Some of these documentations uses older versions. the syntaxes could have changed quite a bit. These old syntaxes usually still work and are used in old project. It is useful to know them but it is a bad idea to use them in a new project.