Automake is a tool for automatically generating ‘Makefile.in’s from files called ‘Makefile.am’. Each ‘Makefile.am’ is basically a series of make variable definitions1, with rules being thrown in occasionally. The generated ‘Makefile.in’s are complia
Automake是从Makefile.am(定义一系列make变量的文件)自动生成Makefile.in文件的工具。生成的Makefile.in符合GNU Makefile 标准。
因为不同的平台需要修改Makefile,所以编写configure脚本自动修改Makefile,再执行./configure && make && make install命令安装包,形成了GNU构建系统。