Installing Automake-1.5

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

Installation of Automake

Automake-1.5 is known to be too new for some applications. KDE-CVS is mostly reported not to work well with this automake release and downgrading to version 1.4-p5 is recommended if you start experiencing any problems with this release.

Install Automake by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make install

Contents of automake-1.5

Program Files

aclocal and automake

Descriptions

aclocal

Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in packages; some of them are actually required by Automake in certain situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file; otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.

The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient way to get Automake-provided macros, without having to search around. Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use by other packages.

automake

To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.

Dependencies

Automake-1.5 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir
grep: fgrep, grep
make: make
perl: perl
sed: sed
sh-utils: echo, expr, hostname, sleep
texinfo: install-info
textutils: cat, tr