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Producing code to the GNU coding standards requires setting up your system appropriately.

step 0

Download and read the free book ‘Developing software with GNU’ [link]

step 1

Ensure Free Software Foundation tools are present and up to date:

apt-get install make [link]
apt-get install m4 [link]
apt-get install texinfolink]
apt-get install tar [link]

step 2

Install the GNU build system:

apt-get install autoconf [link]
apt-get install automake [link]
apt-get install libtool [link]

step 3

There is a hiccup with autotoolset [link]
as it does not exist in any of the repositories and can only be downloaded as an rpm package.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/autotoolset/...
...autotoolset-0.11.4-1.i386.rpm?modtime=1055116800&big_mirror=0

It must, therefore, be converted to a debian package with alien.

Install alien:
sudo apt-get install alien [link]

Convert rpm:
sudo alien autotoolset-0.11.4-1.i386.rpm

Depackage and install resulting deb package
sudo dpkg -i autotoolset_0.11.4-2_i386.deb [link]

N.B.

I had a problem running the wonderfully useful acmkdir script getting the error

/usr/bin/acmkdir: 24: function: not found

Go figure?

and had to call the shell directly:

$SHELL acmkdir helloworld

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