ANTIAUTO - automake made simple

Description

ANTIAUTO is a simple ant build.xml template to use on automake based projects. It can handle all steps from generating the configure script to creating a distribution tarball by providing simple automake-like ant targets.

This little project was originally motivated by Eclipse missing support for automake based projects. It supports ant based projects very well by calling make and its friends is a simple workaround until Eclipse supports automake based projects. Hopefully it will ever as some nice features of automake can not be emulated so simple as calling targets of Makefiles.

It can be fully configured by properties file named antiauto.properties.

Features

Handles projects from CVS to deployment
Creates/updates the autoconf/automake generated files
Allows offline purging of CVS checkouts

History

Version	Date	Description
0.1	2005-03-03	Initial public release

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Installation

Just copy the file build.xml into the root of your project. Create a properties file for it. A template can be found in the download section. Ready to use.

Download

build.xml	Build-file template
antiauto.properties	Properties-file template

Known limitiations and bugs

Currently it can only generate the configure script when another script called autogen.sh exists and creates it. This script may not call configure by itself.

Contact

The author of this project is Michael Koch. Please report any suggestions, improvements or patches you think are useful at least for you. They might be useful for others too.