GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Overview of a Gnome Source Tree . ... Almost all Gnome applications use the same build system based on the GNU tools automake , autoconf , and libtool . ... Beginning with this chapter and continuing throughout Part 2 of the book, a sample application called GnomeHello will be used to demonstrate Gnome features. ... Together, these tools are used to create a portable shell script called configure ; configure is distributed to users with your software package. ...