I am developing a new project, using Autotools for my build infrastructure. I would like to subsume external dependencies into my source tree. These dependencies are using Autotools, as well. How can I configure my project's build scripts to build and link against subsumed dependencies? Though Duret-Lutz's tutorial is excellent, this sit...
I have a newbie Linux programming question. Suppose I have a project that uses Autotools for compiling and deployment, and I have data files that are to be installed in a location like /var/something or /usr/share/something etc., but in Autoconf, I can change these installation paths. How should the program find these files? How does it ...
I needed to add AM_PATH_CHECK to configure.am I then try to run the usual sequence of autotools commands to rebuild all the makefiles and whatnot: aclocal automake -ac autoheader autoreconf ./configure make and here my lack of understanding of autotools showes up because this release of openssh has no Makefile.am??? now what do I do? ...
I have a fork of openssh with some new features and want to write some unit tests to make sure they work at build. Grafting Check into openssh's autotools configuration is diffacult (because I don't really understand autotools) Is there an easier to use C unit test framework? One less closely tied to autotools? How about a better way o...
I have a C application I'm converting from a set of hand coded Makefiles to GNU AutoMake. It has a subdirectory that contains an interface header and several platform-dependent implementations. Currently an implementation is selected and built to an object file with a fixed name in that directory. The code that uses the driver interface ...
What I want to do is to create a new shared library called libxxx that links against another shared library called libzzz, this shared library has an independent "pkg-config"-like tool, let's say it's called "zzz-config" which gives the cflags needed by the compilation phase when using the libzzz. What I want to do is: Create configure...
Hello. I'd like to build my own GNU/Linux system from scratch using cross-compilation (just like the CLFS project). Most of the packages I would use are distributed with a configure script, and you just have to run it with the right arguments. For various reasons, I'd like to skip this step, and run make instead. Of course I need a custo...
So a couple years back I took some time to grok make, and it's paid off enormously. Writing little makefiles for building my projects and automating tasks is fun and productive. The downside is, of course, that my makefiles are overspecific, especially when it comes to platforms and library locations. So this is the point at which peo...
I'm trying to use autotools for the first time as a developer, so excuse any noobishness. I'm using the Check unit testing library which defines the macro AM_PATH_CHECK in check.m4, which was installed in /usr/local/share/aclocal. I managed to get aclocal to recognize AM_PATH_CHECK by editing /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist to include /usr/...
I'm using a 64bit system but want a set of 32bit binaries. What options must I pass to a configure script to generate a 32bit/x86 makefile? ...
I have a cross-platform C library that I need to compile for Android as a *.so file. The library consist of many .c and .h files, and it use autotools as it's buid system. (./configure && make dep && make). Afaik, the library does not depend on other libraries, other than libc and OpenSSL (which should be present on Andriod). I'm tryin...
Hi everyone. I am new to autotools and I am working on a C project. I want to add my project to a git repository but I am not sure, which files generated by the autotools I need to track and which should be ignored. Please provide some hints with regard to this. Thanks ...
So I'm writing tests for my code, and I want to stub out the calls to library functions (make sure that it's calling the right library calls at the right time, and that it handles errors appropriately). I think I'm SOL with the C standard library functions, but those aren't the only libraries I'm using. When building my final executabl...
The idea is that a project has a single file with __DATE__ and __TIME__ in it. It might be cool to have it recompiled without explicitly changing its modification date. edit: $(shell touch -c ..) might be a good solution if only clumsy. ...
After running make distcheck I get the message that I have successfully built the package and is ready for distribution. If I untar the tar.gz with tar -zxvf hello-0.2.tar.gz it successfully extracts all of its contents. However, when I try to extract them in different machines I get: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skip...
I'm trying to understand the build process of a codebase. The project uses both autoconf (configure scripts that generate makefiles) and Maven. I would like to be able identify all of the file dependencies in the project, so that for any output file that ends up being generated by a build, I can identify how it was actually produced. Ul...
How do I define macros on a per-project, or per file level in a C project using autotools? Presently I have this: mount_cpfs_CPPFLAGS = -DFUSE_USE_VERSION=28, but I'm not sure that this is the "portable" way to define a C macro. ...
When defining macros that headers rely on, such as _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, FUSE_USE_VERSION, _GNU_SOURCE among others, where is the best place to put them? Some possibilities I've considered include At the top of the any source files that rely on definitions exposed by headers included in that file Immediately before the include for the re...
I have a project that links to libssl.so and I'm hitting a bug in libssl and never versions of the lib fixes it. However on the system I'm working I don't have root account so I've built libssl and prerequirements myself under $HOME/opt. Now, when I'm doing: ./configure --prefix=`$HOME/opt` make the build system still uses the older ...
Is it somehow possible to ignore certain files during git diff? I'm specifically interested in filtering out Makefile.in, Makefile, configure (and all that auto-generated crap). ...