automake-1.16: Use Cases
2.2 Use Cases for the GNU Build System
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In this section we explore several use cases for the GNU Build System.
You can replay all of these examples on the ‘amhello-1.0.tar.gz’ package
distributed with Automake. If Automake is installed on your system, you
should find a copy of this file in
‘PREFIX/share/doc/automake/amhello-1.0.tar.gz’, where PREFIX is the
installation prefix specified during configuration (PREFIX defaults to
‘/usr/local’, however if Automake was installed by some GNU/Linux
distribution it most likely has been set to ‘/usr’). If you do not have
a copy of Automake installed, you can find a copy of this file inside
the ‘doc/’ directory of the Automake package.
Some of the following use cases present features that are in fact
extensions to the GNU Build System. Read: they are not specified by the
GNU Coding Standards, but they are nonetheless part of the build system
created by the Autotools. To keep things simple, we do not point out
the difference. Our objective is to show you many of the features that
the build system created by the Autotools will offer to you.
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