HOWTOs for Autoconf and Automake?

A nameless wonder snuck this query under my door: "As a fairly new developer, with plans to start making software of sufficient quality to share (i.e. a program whose code/distribution I need not be embarrassed of), I am trying to find good, useful information on how to use automake, autoconf, etc. The main pages are wonderful at telling me the command line options, but don't explain what they do and how they work. I have found a good starter in this article on IBM's Developer works, but where can I find more information? Would someone please (pretty please?) write a HOWTO for the LDP? is there a hidden walkthrough/introduction out there on the net that could shed some light on these tools?"

Re:what's this?

[emmons]

dude you got first post and squandered it with your meaningless cussing! Geez, what a waste.

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Some things that may intrest you...

[aTRaTiCa]

http://www.primate.wisc .edu/software/autoconf/automake.html [wisc.edu]

http://tinf2.vub.a c.be/~dvermeir/manuals/autotools/tutorial.html [vub.ac.be]

These may help ya out a bit, the first is just formal documentation on automake and the second is a nice url that I've used a few times going through a few different GNU development tools.

Here's a Mini

[Pilchie]

http://howto.ewtoo.org/show.cgi? howto=autoconf.txt [ewtoo.org]. It's not bad, but it doesn't go too in-depth. I found it enough to get started with though.

Also the user manual for autoconf, at http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.13 is very good, once you are a little more familiar with the tools. [gnu.org]

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Re:Here's a Mini

[Pilchie]

Sorry about the linkage, it works, but slash kept putting spaces in this where it shouldn't have, such as after the ? in the first link, and between the / and the A in the closing of the second tag
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Re:what's this?

[emmons]

not bad...

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An update from Email...

[Clifton Wood]

loqutous dropped me a line containing information about a site on homestead [homestead.com] that had Autoconf and Automake tutorials. This one might be worth a looksee.

Read the .info files

[cbj]

The best source of technical information for automake/autoconf is going to be in the .info files. If you don't have these installed by default when you install the utilities then complain to your vendor. Anyway, you can always grab the latest released versions from their GNU home via ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu. You can convert the .texi files to .dvi and from .dvi to .ps for printing if you prefer to print them out and bind them into a book.