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1. Or if you’d rather get your hands on dead trees, then there’s this book, which I haven’t read, but it was recommended to me by a colleague.

   GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
   
   

   Topics covered:

   # Introduction and history of Unix and configuration tools
   # The configure tool
   # Makefile and dependencies
   # GNU autotools used for a simple program
   # Porting options and configure.in
   # Bootstrapping techniques
   # Comprehensive introduction to the GNU libtool utility (building and linking options)
   # Using libtool with configure.in andmakefile.am
   # A larger GNU autotools project
   # Distributing files in tarballs
   # Installing and uninstalling packages
   # Strategies and tips for writing portable C code with the GNU autotools (including data types, cross-Unix and Unix/Windows portability issues)
   # Guide to C++ portability (includes issues with variable scoping, exceptions, template, and the Standard Template Library)
   # Dynamic loading and the GNU libltdll tool
   # Advanced automake tips
   # A complex GNU autotools example (including dynamic linking)
   # Introduction to M4 (the underlying language of the autotools)
   # Script portability issues for the Bourne shell and its variants
   # Cygnus’s Cygwin and the GNU autotools
   # Cross-compilation techniques
   # Reference for installing the GNU autotools