gnu make reference material

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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, James McDonald wrote:
> 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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