As the link says, Makefile.in
is the template for Makefile
which would just have @FOO@
macros for configure
(via AC_CONFIG_FILES
) to substitute. If the project is really simple, I can imagine it would work OK without automake
.
All autoscan
and autoheader
do is help you build primitive configure.ac
and config.h
files for your project. You aren't required to use them either.