Karthik,
Yes, automake and autoconf are tools that are used to help manage source
projects across a variety of *NIX platforms (and even work on msys/mingw
on Windows). The configure script and Makefile.in you find in the MySQL
source are generated by ./BUILD/autorun.sh (from the top-level of the
source)
A good site for explaining autoconfig/automake a bit more I found is:
http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake*
*There are other sites as well, but that's a good start.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
Karthik Gurukuntala wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I trying to understand the process of creating the Makefile for MySQL. Now that I
> have figured out that changing a variable in one Makefile of the project directory isn't
> changing the same in those in the sub-directories, I am unable to understand how to do the
> same.
>
> I found this Googling about Makefile :
>
> <quote>
> Makefile.am -- a user input file to automake
> configure.in -- a user input file to autoconf
>
> autoconf generates configure from configure.in
> automake gererates Makefile.in from Makefile.am
>
> configure generates Makefile from Makefile.in
> </quote>
>
> I am not really sure about this process. But, however, yes, i did find that when I
> run ./configure, Makefile is created.
>
> And for MySQL, Makefile.in and configure are found in the extracted source. So, the
> 'autoxxxx' things are already performed by someone for us.
>
> Now, I want to understand how the Makefile.am is written, configure.in is written and
> the tools involved for the same.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> -Karthik
>
> P.S.: Thanks a ton for the previous queries' replies. They have been of great help.
> I dint want to spam the list with thanking messages, so I take this opportunity to
> thank all those who promptly replied to my small,silly questions.
> Thanks again!
>
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