[PLUG-Devel] Developer Meeting for Jun 3: Automake, Autoconf, libtool, and pkg-config

[Kevin Bowling]

Hi,

Thanks for giving this talk, I think you did a great job of showing
how these tools work and how they fit together.

Any chance you can post the tutorial online?

Regards,
Kevin

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Paul Hahn <paul at hahn.name> wrote:
> This months meeting will cover Automake, Autoconf, pkg-config, and libtool.
>
> We will explore the purpose of each of these tools, and walk through
> automating a project with them. After which we will go over some of
> the common gotcha's that non-package maintainer's can encounter when
> trying to build a system using ./configure; make;, and cover how to
> fix them.
>
> The project will consist of using the above tools to build:
>
>    * A C/C++ executable
>    * A shared library, as well as a static library with the same content
>    * Additional test jig code in a subdirectory
>    * Generation of install and test make targets
>    * TeXInfo project documentation in info, html and pdf formats
>    * Integration of the toolset with rpmbuild, to produce RPM files
>
> This meeting will be of benefit to all Linux/UNIX programmers and
> administrators who don't know how to use these tools, but would like
> to know more about them.
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