Automake buildsystem?

.github/workflows/beep-build.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     branches: [ main, master ]
 
+# Running without pandoc installed.
+
 jobs:
   build:
 
@@ -15,18 +17,25 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-    - name: create local.mk
+    - name: apt-get install
       run: |
-        echo "prefix = ${PWD}/_root" > local.mk
+        sudo apt-get update
+        sudo apt-get install -y automake autoconf
+    - name: autoreconf
+      run: autoreconf -vis .
+    - name: configure
+      run: ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/_root"
     - name: make
-      run: make
+      run: N="$(nproc||echo 2)"; make -j$N -l$N
     - name: 'beep --help'
       run: |
         ./beep --help > beep-usage.from--help
         diff -u beep-usage.txt beep-usage.from--help
     - name: 'make check'
       run: make check
-    - name: 'make install-nobuild'
-      run: make install-nobuild
+    - name: 'make install'
+      run: make install
     - name: 'list installed files'
       run: (cd "$PWD/_root" && ls -l $(find . -type f | env LC_ALL=C sort) | nl)
+    - name: 'make distcheck'
+      run: make distcheck

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 # Files that should not be tracked by Git
 
+# autoreconf
+Makefile.in
+/aclocal.m4
+/auto-aux/
+/auto-config.h.in
+/autom4te.cache/
+/configure
+
+# configure
+.deps/
+Makefile
+/auto-config.h
+/config.log
+/config.status
+/stamp-h1
+
 # The compiled executables
 /beep
 /*.clang
@@ -37,6 +53,7 @@
 /tarball-git-dist/
 /beep-*.tar.gz
 /beep-*.tar.xz
+/tests/run-tests
 
 # Test results
 /tests/*.actual.output.new