Autotools
From Gentoo Linux Wiki
The autotools collection is a set of tools that make it easy to build and install programs from a source distribution.
[edit] Installing a package built using autotools
To install a package built with autotools, the installer issues the following commands to [configure], build, test and install:
$ ./configure $ make $ make check $ make install
[edit] Tools
- autoconf - This tool creates a configure script from the configure.ac file
- autoheader - This tool creates a template header for configure
- automake - This tool is used to generate Makefile build information files
- autoproject - This tool creates a skeleton source package for a new program
- autoreconf
- autoscan - This tool generates a configure.ac file for a software package.
- autotoolset - This tool generating various boilerplate files from which you can develop software
- autoupdate
- libtool - This tool creates a consistent portable interface for using shared libraries
