Chapter 11. A Large GNU Autotools Project

This chapter develops the worked example described in Chapter 7, "A Small GNU Autotools Project." Again, the example is heavily colored by my own views, and there certainly are other, very different, but equally valid ways of achieving the same objectives.

I explain how I incorporated Libtool into the Sic project, and how to put the project documentation and test suite under the control of GNU Autotools. I pointed out some problems with the project when I first introduced it. This chapter addresses those issues and presents my favored solution to each.

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