Libtool

Brief GNU Build System: Automake, Autoconf, Libtool are a suite of programming tools used to make source code packages portable to many Unix-like systems. Why We Need Autotools: Autoconf: automatically generates configure script by scans of existing tree to find its dependencies, that are supposed to work on all kinds of platforms. configure generates a config.h file (from a template) which programs can include to work around portability issues. For example, if HAVE_LIBPTHREAD is not defined, use forks instead....