#!/bin/sh # This is a simple script which is meant to help developers # better deal with the GNU autotools, specifically: # # aclocal # autoheader # autoconf # automake # # The whole thing is quite complex... # # The idea is to run this collection of tools on a single platform, # typically the main development platform, running a recent version of # autoconf. In theory, if we had these tools on each platform where we # ever expected to port the software, we would never need to checkin # more than a few autotools configuration files. However, the whole # idea is to generate a configure script and associated files in a way # that is portable across platforms, so we *have* to check in a whole # bunch of files generated by all these tools. # The real source files are: # # acinclude.m4 (used by aclocal) # configure.ac (main autoconf file) # Makefile.am, */Makefile.am (automake config files) # # All the rest is auto-generated. if [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then echo "Cleaning..." rm configure aclocal.m4 rm m4/* rmdir m4 rm config/* rmdir config find . -iname "Makefile.in" -type f -exec rm '{}' + fi # create m4 directory if it not exists if [ ! -d m4 ]; then mkdir m4 fi bail_out() { echo echo " Something went wrong, bailing out!" echo exit 1 } # --- Step 1: Generate aclocal.m4 from: # . acinclude.m4 # . config/*.m4 (these files are referenced in acinclude.m4) mkdir -p config echo "Running aclocal" aclocal -I config || bail_out # --- Step 2: echo "Running libtoolize" libtoolize -f -c || glibtoolize -f -c || bail_out libtoolize --automake || glibtoolize --automake || bail_out # --- Step 3: Generate config.h.in from: # . configure.ac (look for AM_CONFIG_HEADER tag or AC_CONFIG_HEADER tag) echo "Running autoheader" autoheader -f || bail_out # --- Step 4: Generate Makefile.in, src/Makefile.in, and a whole bunch of # files in config (config.guess, config.sub, depcomp, # install-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs) plus COPYING and # INSTALL from: # . Makefile.am # . src/Makefile.am # # Using --add-missing --copy makes sure that, if these files are missing, # they are copied from the system so they can be used in a distribution. echo "Running automake --add-missing --copy" automake --add-missing -c -Wno-portability > /dev/null || bail_out # --- Step 5: Generate configure and include/miaconfig.h from: # . configure.ac # echo "Running autoconf" autoconf || bail_out echo "" echo "All done." echo "To build the software now, do something like:" echo "" echo "$ ./configure [--enable-debug] [...other options]"