autobook

A free online book on Autoconf Automake and Libtool..
http://sourceware.org/autobook/

For all those people who have been mystified by

./configure
make
make install

I'm yet to read the book.. Placing this post lest I lose the url

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(2008-05-12)
Another book on auto-tools

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool

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