GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. It is made by the Free Software Foundation as one of GNU programs, and is p... More

GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. It is made by the Free Software Foundation as one of GNU programs, and is part of the GNU build system. The makefiles produced follow the GNU Coding Standards. It is written in the Perl programming language and must be used with GNU autoconf. Automake contains the following commands: * aclocal * automake aclocal, however, is a general-purpose program that can be useful to autoconf users. The GNU Compiler Collection, for example, uses aclocal even though its makefile is hand written. Like Autoconf, Automake can be quite hard to deal with because it is not entirely backwards compatible. For example, a project created with automake 1.4 will not necessarily work with automake 1.9.   [edit]  Less