Autotools
Posted by Benjamin Close on November 7, 2008 under OpenSource, Programming | 
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The Autotools build system is a great system. It consists of a number of tools. These are
aclocal[1], autoconf[2], automake[3], autoheader[4], and to some extent libtool[5]
These tools all work together to aid in building applications, libraries and providing a consistent framework for doing so. The problem however, is the tools are hard to use, poorly documented and the learning curve to getting things done is extremely high. Added to this, the tutorials on the web show only the basics of using the system and leave all the useful stuff to the user. The problem is the useful stuff is hard to work out.