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An overview of the GNU autotools

An overview of the GNU autotools. Some practical advice about GNU autotools April 14, 2003 – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Fabrizio Coccetti. The Issue. Warren did not only have PIPE Dreams at CHEP03 … He also has Auto-configuration Dreams.

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An overview of the GNU autotools

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  1. An overview of the GNU autotools Some practical advice about GNU autotools April 14, 2003 – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Fabrizio Coccetti Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  2. The Issue • Warren did not only have PIPE Dreams at CHEP03 … • He also has Auto-configuration Dreams Something that works out of the box,you just say ‘install’ and it works. Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  3. The real Problem • How do we handle platform specific issues? • Providing a different Makefile for each architecture • Using Autoconf, Automake and Libtool • The installer needs only • Bourne shell • C compilers • Make program Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  4. Some advantages when using GNU autotools • The installation of a program is straightforward: ./configure; make; make install • This procedure checks for system parameters, libraries, location of programs, availability of functions and writes a Makefile • ./configure supports many options to overwrite defaults settings Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  5. GNU autoconf Source Code configure.ac(configure.in) aclocal autoscan autoconf configure.scan configure Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  6. GNU automake Makefile.in Makefile.am automake configure Makefile Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  7. configure.ac • dnl Comment … … • AC_INIT(main.c) • AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(project_name, 1.2.8) • AM_PROG_LIBTOOL it supports libtool and shared libraries • AC_PROG_CC (or AC_PROG_CXX) it locates the C (C++) compiler • AC_HEADER_STDC it checks for standard headers • AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/time.h /header.h) it checks for headers availability • AC_CHECK_LIB(crypto SSLeay_version) it checks for libraries availability • AC_CHECK_FUNCS(ctime) it checks for functions availability • AC_PROG_INSTALL it checks for BSD compatible install utility • AC_OUTPUT([Makefile]) Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  8. Makefile.am • bin_PROGRAMS = foo /configure --prefix=… (default /usr/local) • foo_PROGRAMS=foo.c foo.h • noist_PROGRAMS=test (make compiles, make install does nothing) • EXTRA_DIST=disclaimer.txt Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  9. Example • foo.c : #include <stdio.h> main() { printf(“Cum grano salis\n"); } • Makefile.am : bin_PROGRAMS = foo foo_SOURCES = foo.c • configure.ac : AC_INIT(foo.c) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(latin_words, 0.9) AC_PROG_CC AC_HEADER_STDC AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_OUTPUT([Makefile]) Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  10. Summary • Source Code, configure.ac, Makefile.am • autoscan; aclocal; autoconf • Create NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog • automake –add-missing • ./configure; make; make dist • Result: project_name-2.10.tar.gz aclocal.m4 autom4te-2.53.cache ChangeLog config.status configure.in COPYING install-sh Makefile.am missing NEWS README AUTHORS autoscan.log config.log configure configure.scan INSTALL Makefile.in mkinstalldirs code.c Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

  11. References • GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html • GNU Autoconf Manualhttp://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf • GNU Automake Manualhttp://www.gnu.org/manual/automake • GNU Libtool Manualhttp://www.gnu.org/manual/libtool • Learning the GNU development toolshttp://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html • The GNU configure and build systemhttp://www.airs.com/ian/configure/configure_toc.html • GNU macro processor (GNU m4)http://www.gnu.org/manual/m4-1.4/m4.html Fabrizio Coccetti - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

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