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Over the past couple of days I have been reading into using autotools to build my project instead of the Makefiles I have pieced together over the past couple of months. Unfortunately I have not found an example that gave me enough insight towards how my project structure is currently.

I have three libraries that are included in the application code of my project. I am looking for the best way to use a single configure script to make (and install) the application, and libraries.

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Autotools documentation is kind of sparse. They arn't the simplest of tools either. Very Unixified. - Aiden Bell
So I've heard; the project I am working on I'd rather be easily deployed via GNU tool chain. - John Bellone

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Sorry for offtopic.

I did similar thing now, but I was able to choose between Autotools and CMake. I am happy to have choosen the second.

Might be worth looking at, including CDash, CTest and CPack. http://www.cmake.org/

Best Regards,

Ovanes

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When I read this, I was already pretty well familiar with the autotools, but it seems like a pretty good introduction: link text