I just came across the little utility "autoproject" which seems like a nice program for automatically generating all configure- and makefiles I need for a project. I have two questions though:
1. When I create a new project, autoproject generates one single source file. If I want my project to have more than one soure file, how do I add these to the project?
2. How can I make autoproject store my source files in a separate scr directory?
I can't find any info about this in the autoproject man pages. Any autoproject user out there who could help out? Or is there some better way to easily (I'm no good with makefiles and stuff) generate everything? What I want is basically some small tool that does what KDevelop or Anjuta does, i.e. generates configure and Makefile and updates when new files are added to the project, but I don't want an IDE.

I'd not recommend autoproject.

It still uses the old autoconf format, and if you really want to use autoconf-connfigure scripts for a real project, you'll need to know about autoconf/automake anyways. So I think it's better to learn about autoconf/automake from scratch.

Read this thread to get started with the new version of autoconf/automake, and try to figure out how it works. The "recipe" I posted there assumes autoconf v2.57 or higher and automake version 1.7 or higher. Make sure you've got those installed.

When you followed that "recipe" with success, you can do the following to make the package to have a "src" directory:

• Make a "src" directory:
  Code:

  shell$ mkdir src

• Move the files "hello.c" and "Makefile.am" to the "src" directory:
  Code:

  shell$ mv hello.c Makefile.am src

• Make a new "Makefile.am" in the top-level directory that just has one line to tell automake to process the "src" directory:
  Code:

  SUBDIRS = src

• Edit "configure.ac" to read:
  Code:

  AC_INIT([Hello], [0.1], [you@example.com], [hello])
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/hello.c])
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
  AC_PROG_CC
  AC_PROG_INSTALL
  AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile])
  AC_OUTPUT

• Rerun the autotools:
  Code:

  shell$ make maintainer-clean
  shell$ aclocal ; automake -a ; autoconf

To have automake process more .c source files, just edit "src/Makefile.am" and mention the other source files in the "hello_SOURCES ..." line. Like this: