GNU Build System (Autotools)

-- RobAllan - 04 Mar 2010

For an overview, see the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system

A typical bootstrap script (pinched from gLite) might look like:

#! /bin/sh
mkdir -p src/autogen
set -x
aclocal -I project
libtoolize --force
autoheader
automake --foreign --add-missing --copy
autoconf