Appendix C. Generated File Dependencies
These diagrams show the data flows associated with each of the tools you might need to use when bootstrapping a project with GNU Autotools. A lot of files are consumed and produced by these tools, and it is important that all the required input files are present (and correct) at each stage—configure requires 'Makefile.in' and produces 'Makefile', for example. There are many of these relationships, and these diagrams should help you to visualize the dependencies. They will be invaluable while you learn your way around GNU Autotools, but before long you will find that you need to refer to them rarely, if at all.
They do not show how the individual files are laid out in a project directory tree, because some ...
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