GNU autoconf
| GNU autoconf | |
|---|---|
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| Name | GNU autoconf |
| Version | 2.69 (2012-04-24) |
| Vendor | Free Software Foundation |
| Author | David MacKenzie Eric Blake (maintainer) |
| Licence | GNU GPL v3 |
| WWW | https://www.gnu.org/software/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:
- Bourne Shell
- M4 (GNU M4 version 1.4.6 or later required, 1.4.14 or later recommended)
- Perl interpreter.
The generated configuration scripts and makefiles also rely on:
- grep
- ls
- sed
- awk.
Version
- 1.0 (1992)
- 2.0
- 2.12 patch level 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