[Tugindia] Re: Makefile (David Kastrup)

[Amitava Das Gupta]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Makefile
>
> "Nikhil Joshi" <nikhil_joshi at gmx.net> writes:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Amitava Das Gupta" <amitav at vsnl.net>
> >
> >
> > > I am new to LaTeX, using it on Windows98SE. In various sub-folders
under
> > the
> > > \texmf\source, I see files named "Makefile.am" or "Makefile.in". What
are
> > > these files, and how can they be used.
> > >
> >
> > these are used by program called make for compiling the source files. no
> > idea how to use in Windows , but in *nix environment u just enter make
nd
> > the source is compiled.
>
> Not quite right.  `make' merely uses a file `Makefile', and that needs
> to be generated in the first place.  The `configure' program generates
> `Makefile' from `Makefile.in' (and often other xxx from xxx.in), and
> the `automake' program generates `Makefile.in' from `Makefile.am'.
>

Thanks for the replies. Can I assume that we are still talking about a
non-Windows environment?


Amitava Das Gupta
amitav at vsnl.net