If you want to see how to use the autotools to build a program that needs to be compiled you can look at the amhello programm [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Hello-World.html|in the automake manual]].
===== Further Reading =====
* a nicely done [[https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html|autotools tutorial]] by Alexandre Duret-Lutz
* the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/|autoconf manual]]
* the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/|automake manual]]
