An Introduction to automatic configuration


I. Files

   1. Required User-written Files

      1) source code:
	 assume one subdirectory: src

      2) Makefile configurations
	 - src/Makefile.am
	 - Makefile.am
      
      3) automatic configuration files
	 - configure.in
      
   2. Required Downloadable scripts

      - install-sh
      - missing
      - mkinstalldirs
      - depcomp

      - config.guess
      - config.sub
      - ltmain.sh
      
   3. Optional User-written Documents
   
      - README
      - INSTALL
      - AUTHORS
      - ChangeLog
      - COPYING
      - NEWS
 

II. Steps to build configuration

   1. aclocal
   2. autoheader
   2. automake
   4. autoconf
   
III. Steps to install software

   1. configure
   2. make
   3. make install