OT: how to get help on autotools

[NoOp]

On 11/29/2012 06:40 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I don't really know where to ask.  Feel free to answer or direct me to
> another source of help.
> 
> I'm in the third chapter of an online article about autotools, just
> starting to use autoconf.  See http://fsmsh.com/2755.
> 
> It gives a 2-line configure.ac file and says to run autoreconf.  For
> me, it just hangs forever.  At first it did other things to tell me I
> hadn't installed autoconf or libtool, for instance, but I have those
> now.  But even with -vv for verbose output, it says nothing and just
> hangs.
...

Maybe these will help:

<https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html>
<https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html>
https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/
<https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html>
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html>