3.2.3. Autotools Documentation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 includes man pages for autoconf, automake, autoscan and most tools included in the Autotools suite. In addition, the Autotools community provides extensive documentation on autoconf and automake on the following websites:

The following is an online book describing the use of Autotools. Although the above online documentation is the recommended and most up to date information on Autotools, this book is a good alternative and introduction.

For information on how to create Autotools input files, see:

The following upstream example also illustrates the use of Autotools in a simple hello program: