

Note that automake must always be runįrom the topmost directory of a project, even if being used to regenerate the Makefile.in This feature is generally only used toĪutomatically rebuild an out-of-date Makefile.in. Result is used as the name of the input file. You can optionally give automake an argument. If your package has multipleĬonfigure.ins, then you must run automake in each directory holding a configure.in. That automake has a rather simplistic view of what constitutes a package it assumes thatĪ package has only one configure.in, at the top. Makefile.am (by scanning configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in. automake will automatically find each appropriate

To create all the Makefile.ins for a package, run the automake program in the top levelĭirectory, with no arguments. Automake - automatically create Makefile.in's from Makefile.am's
