Re: Adding libraries to existing projects

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:00:15AM +0300, Bogdan Ciobanu wrote:
> I am new to GNOME world and I am currently trying to contribute to
> gnome-control-center. The problem is that I need to use some libraries that
> are not included anywhere else in the project and I don't know how where
> and how to include them in configure file and Makefile, as I have never
> worked with such a big program.

The source file used to generate configure is called "configure.ac". The
program used to generate configure from configure.ac is autoconf.

The source file used to generate Makefile is called "Makefile.am". The
program used to generate Makefile from Makefile.am is automake. (Slightly
simplified explanation.)

So I suppose suitable documentation would be "info autoconf", and
"info automake".

Cheers,

Patrick