Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of
contents. As was seen in the previous chapter, the GNU configure
and build system uses a number of different files. The developer
must write a few files. The others are generated by various
tools. The system is rather flexible, and can be used in many
different ways. In describing the files that it uses, I will
describe the common case, and mention some other cases that may
arise. This section describes the files written or generated by
the developer of a package. Here is a picture of the files which
are written by the developer, the generated files which would be
included with a complete source distribution, and the tools
which create those files. The file names are in rectangles with
square corners and the tool names are in rectangles with rounded
corners (e.g., `autoheader' is the name of a tool, not the name
of a file). The following files would be written by the
developer. This is the configuration script. This script
contains invocations of autocon