gnu make reference material

[James McDonald]

Umm I have just spent a frustrating few days trying to figure out why my dia 
compile wasn't working... It wasn't until I read a sams unix in 24hrs (yeah 
right) book that explained what a makefile was did I know where to start... 
It was a simple back slash that was the problem causing a comment to run on 
to the cpp define statements.

Wrong:
#		charconv.c \
#		charconv.h \
CPPFLAGS = $(LIBART_CFLAGS) \
-DLIBDIR=\"$(libdir)\" \
-DDATADIR=\"$(pkgdatadir)\"

Right:
#		charconv.c \
#		charconv.h
CPPFLAGS = $(LIBART_CFLAGS) \
-DLIBDIR=\"$(libdir)\" \
-DDATADIR=\"$(pkgdatadir)\"

My question is can anyone recommended a good book that discusses and explains 
gnu make automake autoconf libtool and the macro language and syntax of 
aclocal etc?...

I'm not a complete idiot so I need a book for "people who aren't complete 
idiots" not a for dummies or such.

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