GNU autoconf

GNU autoconf is a set of M4 macros and various shell scripts which allow a developer to generate configure scripts.

Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of Posix-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are independent of Autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to have Autoconf.

Requirements
Autoconf requires additional tools: The generated configuration scripts and makefiles rely also on:
 * Bourne Shell
 * M4 (GNU M4 version 1.4.6 or later required, 1.4.14 or later recommended)
 * Perl interpreter.
 * grep
 * ls
 * sed
 * awk.

Version

 * 1.0 (1992)
 * 2.0
 * 2.12 patchlevel 5
 * 2.13 (1999-01-15)
 * 2.69 (2012)

Articles

 * Dale DePriest: Using The GNU Configure Scripts In OS/2

Publications

 * John Calcote: Autotools: A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool - No Starch 2010, ISBN 978-1-59327-206-7

Links

 * GNU Autoconf 2.12 for EMX