The May #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://u.fsf.org/472 #FSF #Automake #GNUGettext

i gotta say tho, as someone who spent the first ~15 years of my career doing web dev, going through the autotools docs was like exploring a museum. like a relic of the past

this c shit crazy

#autotools #c #automake #autoconf

[Перевод] Параллельный ./configure

Извините, но в 2025 году — это просто смешно: $ time ./configure: 13.80s user 12.72s system 69% cpu 38.018 total

https://habr.com/ru/articles/904664/

#autotools #configure #make #bash #automake #сборка #сборка_проекта

When building alsa-utils with a custom toolchain + sysroot, I get this error:

libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libasound.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libasound.la'

However, the file does exist inside of the sysroot, and configure claims to use the sysroot that the compiler specifies.

How do I solve this?

#Linux #LibTool #AutoMake #AutoConf #ALSA

LibMPU (создание проектов)

В предыдущей статье мы сделали краткий обзор возможностей библиотеки функций для работы с большими числами. В приведенных примерах, для автоматического задания флагов компилятора и компоновщика, мы рассмотрели использование скрипта mpu-config . Данный скрипт поставляется во время инсталляции LibMPU и позволяет упростить написание Make-файлов для программ, использующих библиотеку LibMPU . Однако это не единственный вариант составления Make-файлов с использованием данной библиотеки. В данной статье мы рассмотрим применение GNU Autotools , которые позволяют обеспечить переносимость программ и упростить создание сложных проектов. После инсталляции LibMPU на вашу GNU/Linux систему в распоряжении пользователя, помимо самой библиотеки, будет находиться m4-скрипт /usr/share/aclocal/libmpu.m4. Скрипт l ibmpu.m4 предназначен для использования в проектах, создаваемых с помошью утилит Autoconf , Automake .

https://habr.com/ru/articles/872332/

#gnu #autotools #autoconf #Automake #configure #длинная_арифметика #большие_числа

#foss enthusiasts… Fancy a #gnu #autoconf #automake and #libtool #book? Swing by Hammersmith area and it’s yours. #macos #bsd #devops #books #development #developers #programming #oss #opensource #unix #linux

I'm old enough to have begun using #unix before #linux, and in the first years, I used *nix (well, SunOS, Solaris, and Digital OSF/1, to say more precisely) for so long. I'm what nowadays is considered a Veteran Unix Admin or #vua. I'm still curious enough to stay updated about current tech, but I wonder how many people out there in the #fediverse are still passionate about tech novelties but even cultivate legacy knowledge such as #C, #Perl, #Tcl, #autoconf and #automake, #m4 and above all why?

#gnu #autoconf / #automake tipp:

# tar-ustar: use ustar format of tar (POSIX 1003.1-1988) to lift the
# 99 character limit on filenames (it is now 155 for the directory and
# 256-dir for the file). Needs Automake 1.9 or newer
# see https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/1.10/html_node/Options.html#index-Option_002c-tar_002dv7
# and https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Formats.html#Formats
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 tar-ustar])

(this is planned to become a default in make dist—the limit is there to support some really old tar implementations—but currently the default is still tar-v7 with max 99 chars)

You know how some people that know Java don't put it on their résumé because they don't want to work in Java?

For me, that's #autotools, #autoconf, #automake

PSA: please switch your projects to #Meson

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Mon nom de domaine préféré, c’est https://Makefile.am

Il y a aussi https://configure.ac mais c’est moins utile.

#autotools #automake #autoconf

Lately I've been working with projects written in C that utilize the GNU Autotools build system. I've found that I often want to change their configuration slightly (e.g. add AddressSanitizer to check for leaks) without discarding the current one. So I wrote a tiny interactive Bash script to make my life a little easier.

(EDIT: inline tags look weird - moved)

#C #GNU #Autotools #Automake #AddressSanitizer #Bash

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Want to fill a disk in an extraordinary way? Build curl with automake! (in some constellations).
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=59288

Of odd reasons, output of 1.5TB could occur..
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/9843

#automake #curl #Makefile #inflate #balloons

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