Re: Possible to use Automake without Autoconf/config script?

[Bob Proulx]

address@hidden wrote:
> If one was only interested in Automake and not
> portability, could one bypass Makefile.in
> and just use Automake independently of Autoconfig?

It is probably easiest and best to use a minimal configure.ac file in
that case.  Just the basics and nothing more.  Here is an example
configure.ac which implements this idea.

  AC_INIT(projectname,0.0)
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
  AC_PROG_AWK
  AC_PROG_INSTALL
  AC_PROG_LN_S
  AC_PROG_RANLIB
  AC_PROG_CC
  AC_OUTPUT([ Makefile ])

This is so small that it runs fast and light.  No worries about
portability for you here.  Just enough to get automake going.

Bob