shared objects and autoconf

i'm trying to learn autoconf because my projects are growing and i'm starting to develop on multiple posix systems.

i've read a great tutorial on washington.edu about how to do basic stuff with autoconf but some of my projects create their own shared objects which they link to

what can you tell me about autoconf and compiling shared objects? do i need to make it do something special with automake? any tutorials dealing with this or any specific manual pages i should read, or any specific chapers of the info pages

just giving me a hint on what to search for in the infopages would be very helpful

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Good to see that they're essentially dead: http://download.gna.org/etoile/