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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Why FLAIM?

While FLAIM is far from a mainstream OSS project, it has several qualities that make it a perfect example for showing how to convert a project to use the Autotools. For one, FLAIM is currently built using a hand-coded GNU makefile that contains over 2,000 lines of complex make script. The FLAIM makefile contains a number of GNU make–specific constructs, and thus, you can only process this makefile using GNU make. Individual (but nearly identical) makefiles are used to build the flaim, xflaim, and flaimsql database libraries, and the FLAIM toolkit (ftk), as well as several utility and sample programs on Linux, various flavors of Unix, Windows, and NetWare.

The existing FLAIM build system targets several different flavors of Unix, including ...

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