Using Antimake with autoconf

Autoconf setup

File: autogen.sh

../../std-autogen.sh ../../..

# fetch Antimake template from libusual
cp ../../antimake.mk antimake.mk.in

File: configure.ac

AC_INIT([actest], [0.1])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([prog.c])
AC_PREREQ([2.59])

AC_USUAL_INIT
AC_USUAL_PROGRAM_CHECK

AC_OUTPUT([antimake.mk])

Here is the source we want to build:

File: prog.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
        printf("hello\n");
        return 0;
}

Antimake based Makefile

File: Makefile

# the automake-style build description for 'prog'
noinst_PROGRAMS = prog
prog_SOURCES = prog.c

EXTRA_DIST = Makefile $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES)

# clean configured files
DISTCLEANFILES = config.status config.log antimake.mk

# clean generated files
MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = configure config.guess config.sub install-sh antimake.mk.in

# launch Antimake
include antimake.mk

Build the project

$ sh ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
[...]
$ make
     CC       prog.c
     CCLD     prog
$ ls
Makefile        autogen.sh    config.status  configure.ac  prog.c
antimake.mk     config.guess  config.sub     install-sh
antimake.mk.in  config.log    configure      prog
$ ./prog
hello

Create distribution package

$ make dist
     CHECK    dist-gzip
     MKDIR    actest-0.1
     COPY     actest-0.1
     PACK     actest-0.1.tar.gz
$ tar tzf actest-0.1.tar.gz | sort
actest-0.1/
actest-0.1/Makefile
actest-0.1/antimake.mk.in
actest-0.1/config.guess
actest-0.1/config.sub
actest-0.1/configure
actest-0.1/install-sh
actest-0.1/prog.c

Test the distribution package and separate build dir

$ mkdir -p test
$ cd test
$ tar xf ../actest-0.1.tar.gz
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../actest-0.1/configure
[...]
$ make
     CC       ../actest-0.1/prog.c
     CCLD     prog
$ ls
Makefile  antimake.mk  config.log  config.status  prog
$ ./prog
hello
$ cd ../..

Clean up

$ make maintainer-clean
     CLEAN    prog
     MAINTAINERCLEAN maintainer-clean
$ ls
Makefile  actest-0.1.tar.gz  autogen.sh  configure.ac  prog.c  test

Done