Simple example
Shamelessly adapted from: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Creating-amhello.html and tested on Ubuntu 14.04 Automake 1.14.1.
Makefile.am
SUBDIRS = src
dist_doc_DATA = README.md
README.md
Some doc.
configure.ac
AC_INIT([automake_hello_world], [1.0], [[email protected]])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
AC_PROG_CC
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([
Makefile
src/Makefile
])
AC_OUTPUT
src/Makefile.am
bin_PROGRAMS = autotools_hello_world
autotools_hello_world_SOURCES = main.c
src/main.c
#include <config.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main (void) {
puts ("Hello world from " PACKAGE_STRING);
return 0;
}
Usage
autoreconf --install
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
sudo make install
autoconf_hello_world
sudo make uninstall
This outputs:
Hello world from automake_hello_world 1.0
Notes
autoreconf --install generates several template files which should be tracked by Git, including Makefile.in. It only needs to be run the first time.
make install installs:
/usr/local/binREADME.md to /usr/local/share/doc/automake_hello_worldOn GitHub for you to try it out.