Hello everyone,

I have a few questions about using GNU automake to package programs. First of all, it recommends in the documentation to use automake -a to make symbolic links to files that automake needs to run. Why would this be the default over automake -c, where it copies the files into your build directory? Isn't the whole point of automake to be portable? I'm not trying to rant about automake here, I just really want to know if there is a valid reason for doing this or if I should just ignore it and do automake -c to be more portable. Also, when I am installing a libtool library in automake, how do I write the Makefile.am to run ldconfig or it's equivalent after installing the libraries.
Thanks