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GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
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GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, Ian Lance Taylor
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 9m
English
Sams
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Chapter 10. Using GNU Libtool with 'configure.in' and 'Makefile.am'

Although Libtool is usable by itself, either from the command line or from a non-make-driven build system, it is also tightly integrated into Autoconf and Automake. This chapter discusses how to use Libtool with Autoconf and Automake and explains how to set up the files you write ('Makefile.am' and 'configure.in') to take advantage of libtool. For a more in-depth discussion of the workings of Libtool, particularly its command-line interface, refer to Chapter 9, "Introducing GNU Libtool." Using libtool for dynamic runtime loading is described in Chapter 17, "Using GNU libltdl."

Using libtool to build the libraries in a project requires declaring your use of libtool inside the ...

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