Lecture about the GNU Autotools

GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool are the de-facto standard tools for portably building and installing applications across variable UNIX flavours and systems.

This lecture covers the basic concepts involved in using these tools, and how to use them for your application.

• The Lecture Slides
• Summary of the lecture
• Quad-Pres Source for the Lecture

Links

• The Autobook - a free online (or paperback) book that thoroughly covers Autoconf, Automake and Libtool.
• Learning Autoconf and Automake - tutorial and links.
• autotut - a tutorial on Autoconf, Automake and Autoheader.