autotools

I'm trying to create a library using autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) as a build system. The library has to be cross-compileable, but one of the steps of building it is to generate sources by executable built from sources during the whole process. The problem is I cannot use automake's system to build the intermediate binary because when it's cross compile it wouldn't run on '--build' to generate sources. One way to work this around it to create separate autools project to build intermediate binaries but I want to avoid it because there are many headers and other "data" files common for

I want my code to compile with the Intel compiler(s) or with gcc/g++ depending on a configure argument. Is this possible? What do I need to put in my configure.ac and Makefile.am files to make this happen? If you want to use a compiler other than gcc when you compile, pass 'CC=/path/to/compiler' as an argument to configure. (That is, run ./configure CC=/path. Do not use the form CC=/path ./configure.) If you want the default compiler to be something other than gcc, you can put CC=${CC-/path/to/default/compiler} in configure.ac before the invocation of AC_PROG_CC. I would do this: AC_PROG_CC(

How can I tell automake to install arbitrary data files in places I want? I have some files I need to put in specific places, e.g. " datafile1 ", in my project, needs to be copied to " /usr/MyProduct/flash_memory ". " /usr/MyProduct/flash_memory " is an absolute path that I can't change. " datafile1 " is a binary data file that is not "built" by make , but just needs to be copied by make install . I can't bear on make dist . It needs to be copied by make install (its a long explanation, so, pelase just take this into account). I rather not use install-hook , but prefer to have a more elegant

I recently downloaded the latest stable release of Gnu Octave, and was attempting to build and install it on my machine (Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS 64bit). When I run ./configure, I got this error message: configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK libraries Does anyone know Where do I obtain these libraries from? Try to run this apt-get install libblas-dev libatlas-dev liblapack-dev All libraries, required by octave package in ubuntu are listed here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/octave3.2 and to build new octave you need -dev packages of some listed libs. The octave in ubuntu

I am using autotools for building my C++ application. In my configure.ac I have the following line: AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wall], [CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall"]) which causes the following error when executing ./configure (after running autoreconf -i ): ./configure: line 3825: syntax error near unexpected token `-Wall,' ./configure: line 3825: `AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-Wall, CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall")' My system: Linux web 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux On my Ubuntu machine it works well, why do I get this error? autoreconf isn't magic (though I encounter package

I am new to C++ and I have to handle large integers, so I have to install GMP through Cygwin. Any documentation I can find on installing this already assumes that you know what you are talking about, and I really don't. Anyway, I got the right .tar or whatever, extracted it properly, and now any website I see says to run ./configure --prefix=${gmp_install} ... What in the world is gmp_install ? And what directory do I run configure from? Huh? I can run it from my little Cygwin terminal, but it just says no such file. Next, I am supposed to type make . From where? Help... Welcome to