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Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell
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scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
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These scripts allegedly can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like
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systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a
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configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the
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operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4
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macro calls.
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The FSF would make you believe that only gnu-m4 can handle autoconf.
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2004-08-06 02:57:10 -04:00
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This is no longer true. This package does not depend on gnu-m4.
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This is autoconf${SUFFIX}.
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The actual autoconf drivers for selecting autoconf version are in
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the metaauto package.
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