automake detail step by step

1. automake Detail step by step

  -) autoscan   
 infile: NULL
 outfile: -> configure.scan

  -) cp configure.scan configure.in && vi configure.in
 configure.in:
 AC_INIT(pkg_name, version, email)  
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(pkg_name, version) 
 --------------------------------- 
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile, src/Makefile)

  -) aclocal  
 infile: configure.in
 outfile: aclocal.m4 auto4te.cache

 aclocal generate the file aclocal.m4 according to the configure.in
 note: the reason of the aclocal.m4 's absence is you didn't add the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(PKG_NAME, VERSION) in the file configure.in

  -) autoconf
 infile: configure.in & aclocal.m4
 outfile: configure

  -) vi Makefile.am

  -) automake --add-missing
 infile: Makefile.am
 outfile: Makefile.in

  -) ./configure
 outfile: Makefile
  -) make

2：automake in brief：
create and write the right content to files as follow:
 helloworld.c
 configure.in
 Makefile.am

input commands orderly as follow :
aclocal; autoconf; automake --add-missing; ./configure; make;
./helloworld