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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
| commit | b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a (patch) | |
| tree | 27c4db3c62aaea065b053e43c39b2ba44c04a05f /appendixa/automake-desc.xml | |
| parent | 46f5461af92bc70c62bbb92895032b930954d835 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/appendixa/automake-desc.xml b/appendixa/automake-desc.xml index 82ae11569..b308d3049 100644 --- a/appendixa/automake-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/automake-desc.xml @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ <sect2> <title>Contents</title> -<para> -The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs -</para> +<para>The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs</para> </sect2> @@ -11,30 +9,24 @@ The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs <sect3><title>aclocal</title> -<para> -Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in +<para>Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in packages; some of them are actually required by Automake in certain situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file; -otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf. -</para> +otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.</para> -<para> -The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files +<para>The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient way to get Automake-provided macros, without having to search around. -Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use by other packages. -</para> +Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use by other packages.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>automake</title> -<para> -To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake +<para>To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning -configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in. -</para> +configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.</para> </sect3> |