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-*- text -*-
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Autoconf
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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 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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Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU M4. You
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must install GNU M4 (version 1.4 or later) before configuring
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Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure script can find it. The
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configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are self-contained, so
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their users do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU M4).
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Some optional utilities that come with Autoconf, autoscan and
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autoupdate, use Perl 5.5. However, it is not required in order to use
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the main Autoconf programs. If it is not present, the affected
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Autoconf utilities will not be installed.
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The file INSTALL should be distributed with packages that use
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Autoconf-generated configure scripts and Makefiles that conform to the
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GNU coding standards. The package's README can just give an overview
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of the package, where to report bugs, and a pointer to INSTALL for
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instructions on compilation and installation. This removes the need
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to maintain many similar sets of installation instructions.
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Be sure to read BUGS (especially if this Autoconf is not an official
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release) and INSTALL.
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This version of the package Autoconf uses a fixed version of Automake
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1.4. If ever you alter some Makefile.am (i.e., if you hack Autoconf
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itself), you'll have to use either a more recent release of Automake,
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or download the patch from
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http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/automake.html
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Mail suggestions to autoconf@gnu.org, bug reports to
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autoconf-bugs@gnu.org, and patches to autoconf-patches@gnu.org.
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Please include the Autoconf version number, which you can get by
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running `autoconf --version'.
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