GNU Build System (Autotools)
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RobAllan - 04 Mar 2010
For an overview, see the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system
A typical bootstrap script (pinched from gLite) might look like:
#! /bin/sh
mkdir -p src/autogen
set -x
aclocal -I project
libtoolize --force
autoheader
automake --foreign --add-missing --copy
autoconf