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automake-1.16: Use Cases

 
 2.2 Use Cases for the GNU Build System
 ======================================
 
 In this section we explore several use cases for the GNU Build System.
 You can replay all of these examples on the ‘amhello-1.0.tar.gz’ package
 distributed with Automake.  If Automake is installed on your system, you
 should find a copy of this file in
 ‘PREFIX/share/doc/automake/amhello-1.0.tar.gz’, where PREFIX is the
 installation prefix specified during configuration (PREFIX defaults to
 ‘/usr/local’, however if Automake was installed by some GNU/Linux
 distribution it most likely has been set to ‘/usr’).  If you do not have
 a copy of Automake installed, you can find a copy of this file inside
 the ‘doc/’ directory of the Automake package.
 
    Some of the following use cases present features that are in fact
 extensions to the GNU Build System.  Read: they are not specified by the
 GNU Coding Standards, but they are nonetheless part of the build system
 created by the Autotools.  To keep things simple, we do not point out
 the difference.  Our objective is to show you many of the features that
 the build system created by the Autotools will offer to you.

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· Basic Installation          Common installation procedure
· Standard Targets            A list of standard Makefile targets
· Standard Directory Variables  A list of standard directory variables
· Standard Configuration Variables  Using configuration variables
· config.site                 Using a config.site file
· VPATH Builds                Parallel build trees
· Two-Part Install            Installing data and programs separately
· Cross-Compilation           Building for other architectures
· Renaming                    Renaming programs at install time
· DESTDIR                     Building binary packages with DESTDIR
· Preparing Distributions     Rolling out tarballs
· Dependency Tracking         Automatic dependency tracking
· Nested Packages             The GNU Build Systems can be nested
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