Adventures in Autoconfiscation

Short series describing how Arabica's build system was converted from a home-grown collection of Makefiles to GNU Autotools. Three part series written for CVu, the journal of ACCU.

• Part 1 - Discusses the motivation for moving to Autotools after many years of Makefile farming.
• Part 2 - First steps with Autotools - getting a library and test harness built.
• Part 3 - Finishing the conversion - writing macros and customising the build. Considers the expected and unexpected benefits of moving to Autotools.

Introduction to Arabica

Forthcoming Library of the Month feature for Software Developer's Journal, presenting an overview of Arabica together with sample code.