autotools Cheat Sheet

Building Projects

Standard bootstrap: First try maintainer supplied autogen.sh:

sh autogen.sh

Second try:

autoreconf -i
./configure

Installation

On Debian

apt-get install build-essential

Misc

configure - Passing extra CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, …

./configure "CFLAGS=-Wall -Wextra -I/opt/mylib/include" "LDFLAGS=-Lmy"

Find out module names for PKG_CHECK_MODULES:
```
ls /usr/lib/pkg-config
```

Packaging

Build Tarballs with XZ: Build different types of tarballs

make dist            # .tar.gz
make dist-bzip2      # .tar.bz2
make dist-lzma       # .tar.lzma
make dist-xz         # .tar.xz

# Extract with
tar zxf archive.tar.gz
tar jxf archive.tar.bz2
tar Jxf archive.tar.lzma
tar Jxf archive.tar.xz

Translating

With autotools gettext is the tool of choice

Update .pot file
```
cd po && make update-po
```

Statistics: Show translation statistics

for pofile in *.po; do echo -n "$pofile "; msgfmt --statistic $pofile; done