Autoconf and Automake Tutorial

"My program has a couple of dependencies (xosd, Xtst, X11) and it is small enough to understand. So I decided to use this program to write a quick and dirty tutorial for autotools, with dependency checks.

"These are the steps I followed to achieve that and here are the files that I'll be using for this example. getkey_example.tar.gz

"Required Tools:

"Make sure the following tools are available on the system, before getting started.

tar
make
aclocal
autoconf
automake

"This tutorial is based on autoconf ver 2.63."

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