automake

In the flowchart of autoconf and automake from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automake , there are several processes autoscan alocal autoheader autoconf automake configure make Which processes are performed by a user of a software program after he downloaded the distribution of the software program by the party who creates the distribution of the software program from its source code (and who is likely the author of the software program)? I ask this question, because I remember that after I, as a user of some software program, downloaded its source distribution, the commands I ran to build an

I am trying to install automake on MacOS using brew . From terminal I write, brew install automake says Warning: automake-1.15 already installed . When I then try automake version it responds -bash: automake: command not found . I am using OS X El Capitan. $ automake version -bash: automake: command not found $ brew install automake Warning: automake-1.15 already installed $ automake version -bash: automake: command not found The solution had to do with brew having failed to link the binary into the PATH . Un-linking and re-linking solved it. Fattie What an infuriating problem! In a Docker

I have a file Makefile.am I am using to generate a Makefile. In the generated Makefile I want to have something like: ifndef SOURCECODEPATH SOURCECODEPATH := /home/root/source_code_path endif It seems so simple, does anyone know how I can do it? Use the AM_CONDITIONAL macro in configure.ac . The script sets a variable you can test, e.g., a variable that is set to non-empty if the condition is enabled: AM_CONDITIONAL([ENABLE_SOURCECODEPATH], [test "x$ac_srcpath" != "x"]) Then in Makefile.am : if !ENABLE_SOURCECODEPATH SOURCECODEPATH = ... endif However, since you are explicitly defining the

I have to ship a third-party library with an application. Because I don't want to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH by hand or require any wrapper script I want automake to set a custom rpath . Unfortunately libtool has its own -rpath option and adding -Wl,-rpath,/foo/bar to LDFLAGS only results in g++: unrecognized option '-rpath' because libtool seems to get confused with the command line options. The same happens with the alternative form -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/foo/bar . Is there any way to specify a custom rpath without libtool interference? As you said, libtool has its own -rpath option. Any reason you don't