summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README
blob: 83d0fdc1466344d929a36ef2faba91ef96283fc0 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
This is Automake, an experimental Makefile generator.  It was inspired
by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to
conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.

Automake is a Perl script.  The input files are called Makefile.am.
The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use
with Autoconf.  Automake requires certain things to be done in your
configure.in.

Variable assignment lines in Makefile.am pull in defaults from various
little *.am files.

To use Automake, replace your Makefile.in files with Makefile.am
files.  Read the documentation to see what to do.  The only currently
valid example is in samples/cpio; the stuff in samples/old is
obsolete.