GNU autoconf
GNU autoconf is a set of M4 macros and various shell scripts which allow a developer to generate configure scripts.
Requirements
Autoconf requires additional tools:
- Bourne Shell
- M4 (can be provided by the GNU M4 macro package)
- Perl interpreter.
The generated configuration scripts and makefiles rely also on:
- grep
- ls
- sed
- awk.
Version
- 2.12 patchlevel 5
- 2.13
- 2.69 (2012)
Publications
- John Calcote: Autotools: A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool - No Starch 2010, ISBN 978-1-59327-206-7