Short Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. General ideas
3. Some example packages
4. Creating a `Makefile.in'
5. Scanning `configure.in'
6. The top-level `Makefile.am'
7. An Alternative Approach to Subdirectories
8. Rebuilding Makefiles
9. Building Programs and Libraries
10. Other Derived Objects
11. Other GNU Tools
12. Building documentation
13. What Gets Installed
14. What Gets Cleaned
15. What Goes in a Distribution
16. Support for test suites
17. Changing Automake's Behavior
18. Miscellaneous Rules
19. Include
20. Conditionals
21. The effect of --gnu and --gnits
22. The effect of --cygnus
23. When Automake Isn't Enough
24. Distributing `Makefile.in's
25. Automake API versioning
Macro and Variable Index
General Index