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 foundthis 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 tounderstand how the Makefile.am is written, configure.in is written and thetools 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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Hi Karthik,

I think this book is what you need to read:
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

It covers autoconf, automake, and libtool, which is what the
Makefile.am and configure.in file is about.

Best wishes,
Mats Kindahl

Karthik Gurukuntala wrote:
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Hi Karthik,

Karthik Gurukuntala, 31.03.2010 11:05:

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You might find some useful hints in the reference manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/...urce-tree.html

Regards
Ingo
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