Script to generate minimal Makefile.am and configure.ac for a C++ project

autoskeleton.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Press Ctrl-C at any time to abort Makefile generation"

echo
echo "The project name should start with a letter and contain nothing but "
echo "letters (A-z), digits (0-9) and dashes ('-').  Do not include the "
echo "version number."
echo
echo "Example: hello-world"
echo
echo -n "Project name: "
read NAME

echo
echo -n "Version number (example: 1.0.0): "
read VERSION

SOURCES=`find -name \*.h -or -name \*.hh -or -name \*.hpp -or -name \*.hxx -or -name \*.cc -or -iname \*.c -or -name \*.cpp -or -name \*.cxx -or -name \*.m -or -name \*.i -or -name \*.ii -or -iname \*.s -type f | sed 's,^\./,,' | tr '\n' ' '`

if [ x"$SOURCES" = x ]
then
  echo "Error no sources were found (.cc, .c, .C, .cpp, .cxx, .m, .i, .ii, .s, .S)"
  exit 1
fi

echo
echo "The following sources will be included: "
echo "$SOURCES"

echo
echo -n "Press enter to continue..."
read

cat > configure.ac <<EOF
AC_INIT($NAME,$VERSION)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])

m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])

AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_PROG_INSTALL
AC_PROG_MAKE_SET

AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
EOF

BNAME=`echo -n "$NAME"_SOURCES | sed 's/[-\.]/_/g'`

cat > Makefile.am <<EOF
bin_PROGRAMS = $NAME

$BNAME = $SOURCES
EOF

autoreconf -i -f || exit 1

./configure