aclocal,autoconf,automake,configure.in,make,makepp,gcc,cc, what are all these
 

aclocal,autoconf,automake,configure.in,make,makepp,gcc,cc, what are all these.to me these are tools ,if i knew them, i could use these to produce an executable from my c source file.what exactly these are i really don't know.till now i have been using ide which used to handle the mess but i feel like learning what these really are?
please throw some light on

i also tried delving into man pages but it didn't really helped

Look up on the web

GNU auto tools

and get ready to read a, say, 600pages tutorial (slides, quite interesting).

If you need to produce an executable from a small number of source files (say, no more than 10), you just need 'gcc'.