Hi Shakthi and others..
Here is the summary of what i expect to cover.. Comments are welcome. I
might change the order or contents later if needed.
Topic: AUTOMAKE and AUTOCONF
1)Introduction to autotools..
why they exist..
how it helps programmers and users..
2)Introduction to makefiles..
use of makefiles
3)requirements on both developers and users machine..
4)basic organisation of automake and autoconf.
5)the basic steps involved in creating a source tarball.
6)how to write basic configure.in <http://configure.in> and
makefile.am<http://makefile.am>scripts
7)how to check for presence of libraries.
8)how to check for the presence of headers..
9)how to write man pages
10)how to pass compiler and linker options
11)how to create a tar ball
12)user groups.. irc and other important links
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