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

amolgupta · 12-27-2008, 10:45 AM

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

amolgupta · 12-27-2008, 10:46 AM

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

Sergei Steshenko · 12-27-2008, 12:57 PM

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'.