I wanted to examine the issue from this question: Android NDK for x86_64 has no reference for bcopy and index. In the question, the poster asked about Android x86_64 and bcopy in relation to the La...

I’ve trying to create install package for hello world sample C program. I’ve done following staps. autoscan mv configure.scan configure.ac edit configure.ac to add some macros. aclocal create ...

I'm trying to learn how to use autotools and I can't seem to find a good beginner-friendly answer to this question. What's the difference between autoconf and autoreconf.

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I am new new to GNU/Linux and compiling. I am not able to compile Aegisub from source. On GNU/Linux Debian 7.7 Wheezy amd64, when running sh autogen.sh in Aegisub I get the following output: $ sh ...

I have downloaded a macro from Autoconf Archive, and I want to use it. What do I have to put in my configure.ac file to make use this macro?

I'm writing an autoconf script that needs the current UTC offset. There's no obvious way to get this out of the date program. Is there any straightforward way to get this from a command-line utilit...

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On a Linux system I configured a software package (llvm) and autoconf finds the arc4random function. Here an extraction of the output during configuration: checking for strerror... yes checking f...

I'm currently working on a C++ project which relies on recursive automake for building. I want to build a shared library and the Makefile.am in the src directory of the library looks like # ... ...

I found several useful macros in the Autoconf Archive, and also a useful m4 file which helps test Boost library support. The Autoconf Archive is hosted by GNU and the Boost m4 helper is hosted as a...

I'm working on a C++ project that uses autoconf & automake, and I'm struggling to correctly set up the include paths in *CPPFLAGS. I've read about 3 hours worth of documents, and I can't figure...

I'm using MinGW-w64 with POSIX threads. I want to build GNU gettext with POSIX threads and as shared libraries (DLLs in this case). However, when one builds runtime artifacts (such as DLLs or execu...

I am trying to compile a library using android-ndk-r5 standalone toolchain and autotools. When doing a ./configure, it fails with: $ ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi ...snip... checking h...

I have a large autoconf/automake project, broken into components using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. Is there any way to make autoconf/configure run faster? Perhaps doing subdirs in parallel, or caching reusa...

We have the ctemplate library included in our git-managed project which is based on GNU Autoconf. I would like to put everything which is generated by Autoconf into the .gitignore file to avoid co...

Is there a way to compile the "check" target of an autoconf project without running it? I have Eclipse Juno with the "C/C++ Unit Test" plugin. I would like to be able to make the check target, the...

I am an autotools newb and I have difficulties figuring out howto easily link a specific library into one of the configured targets. I have a source package that I want to build the usual way: ./c...

The script ./configure accepts 3 options --build, --host and --target. I'm confusing their roles. What's the difference and semantics of them?

fcntl() uses struct flock structure to define and check file locks. Unfortunately, on different Unix systems the fields in this structure are in different order. Does anybody know how one could che...

I'm developing a project that is currently written in C but I plan to write some of the functions in ASM for at least two platforms (x86_64 and arm). So I might have some source files: generic/on...

Using only the features of C89, given typedef [unspecified token sequence] T1; typedef [another unspecified token sequence] T2; exhibit a language construct which will compile without error if a...

I have a .cpp file: htonstest.cpp. I use g++ to compile it: $ g++ -o test htonstest.cpp It works, and the program ./test works too. But, when I use automake to compile it, has a compile error:...

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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 extrac...