On 9/27/2010 2:10 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > > Another is ``GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool'' by Vaughan, > Elliston, Tromey, and Taylor. Vaughan is still active on the autotools lists, and he occasionally pops in on threads mentioning his book, telling people they should be careful in applying what it says. It was written so long ago that it no longer conforms to current autotools idioms. Simply copying the code from the book is likely to get you a file that either gives lots of warnings or may not even work without changes, usually minor. It's not useless, just superannuated.