From b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:45:10 +0000 Subject: XML changes git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@827 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/automake-desc.xml | 22 +++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/automake-desc.xml') 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 @@ Contents - -The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs - +The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs @@ -11,30 +9,24 @@ The Automake package contains the aclocal and automake programs aclocal - -Automake includes a number of Autoconf macros which can be used in +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. - +otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf. - -The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files +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. - +Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use by other packages. automake - -To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake +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. - +configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf