Using Automake/autoconf

Author:: Jan Wedekind (jan at wedesoft.de)

Date:: Wed May 26 12:43:00 BST 2004

Getting started

Create configure script

If you start from scratch (f.e. after checking out the content of the tla-repository), you'll need to generate the configure script:

    $ make -f Makefile.dist

To configure and compile the software in debug-mode do:

    $ ./configure --enable-debug=yes
    $ make

Note that you need autoconf-2.50 or higher.

Create distributable

To create a distributable source-tarball go to the mimas root directory and do

    $ make dist

Beware: This only works properly, if you have mimas compiled with all optional functionality! Otherwise the tar-file will be incomplete.

Cleaning your source tree

To clean secondary files like objects, libraries and executables in the current directory and all sub-directories just do

    $ make clean

automake/autoconf clutters the directories with a lot of files. If you want to delete the configure-script and other files generated by autoconf, you have to execute

    $ make distclean

For deleting all secondary files, there is the maintainer-clean-rule

    $ make maintainer-clean

Installation

To install mimas just type

    $ make install

Further information

More configure flags

    $ ./configure --enable-debug=yes --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --with-pkg-config-path=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3.2 CXX=/usr/bin/g++-3.3.2

--enable-debug=yes Compiles code for debugging (add compiler-options -g, no option -DNDEBUG).
--prefix=/usr Setup makefiles for installing in /usr.
--exec-prefix=/usr Setup makefiles for installing executables in /usr.
--with-pkg-config-path=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig Additional directory to be searched pkg-config-files (used for searching ImageMagick++, libxine, fftw3, gstreamer, and Qt).
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3.2 Use alternative C-compiler.
CXX=/usr/bin/g++-3.3.2 Use alternative C++-compiler.