November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
17h 16m
English
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.—Zen proverb

Shortly after Autoconf began its journey to success, David MacKenzie started working on a new tool for automatically generating makefiles for a GNU project: Automake. During early development of the GNU Coding Standards (GCS), it became apparent to MacKenzie that because the GCS is fairly specific about how and where a project’s products should be built, tested, and installed, much of a GNU project makefile was boilerplate material. Automake takes advantage of this fact to make maintainers’ lives ...