autotools autoconf automake

Documents

• [!]Autotools Mythbuster

• The new guide of the conversation in Autoconf and Make

• 理解 configure 脚本

Debug / Release Build

• GNU autotools: Debug/Release targets?

$ mkdir debug
$ mkdir release
$ cd debug && /path/to/configure --prefix=/dbg \
   CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" && make && make install
$ cd ../release && /path/to/configure CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG && make && make install

AC_SUBST

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30462230/ac-subst-macro-usage-in-makefile-am-subdirs

AC_ARG_ENABLE

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11898782/how-to-conditionally-compile-in-a-autotools-project

CUDA

• automake with CUDA/custom language and $(eval) rule creation
• CUDA and autotools configure.ac, makefile.am, ...

Trouble-shooting

You should recreate aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.

aclocal
automake
make

• Intltool: Automake version mismatch

configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in

autoreconf -f -i -Wall,no-obsolete

• configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..