Having made my configure.ac
and Makefile.am
files, I see myself having to perform autoreconf
s so autoconf will not complain about undefined macros such as AC_INIT_AUTOMAKE
. This fills my directory with files like aclocal.m4
, Makefile.in
, install-sh
, confdefs.h
, depcomp
, autom4te.cache
, and a .deps
directory.
Having read the documentation I just cannot get what are the minimum number of these files to be shipped with my source code, that are platform independant. Either the documentation is not clear enough, they expect me to read much more or it is me that I don’t have enough time. I am sort of in a rush.
What are these files and what are the tasks that the compiler person, in their system, must perform?