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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 and
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Perl. You should install GNU M4 (version 1.4.6 or later is required;
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1.4.14 or later is recommended) and Perl (5.006 or later) before
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configuring Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure script can find
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them. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are
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self-contained, so their users do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU
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M4, Perl, etc.).
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You can get GNU M4 here:
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/
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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 and INSTALL.
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Mail suggestions to autoconf@gnu.org, report bugs to
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bug-autoconf@gnu.org, and submit patches to autoconf-patches@gnu.org.
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All changes can be tracked at the read-only autoconf-commit@gnu.org.
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Always include the Autoconf version number, which you can get by
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running `autoconf --version'. Archives of bug-autoconf@gnu.org can be
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found in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/>, and
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similarly for the other mailing lists.
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Licensing
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Autoconf is released under the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3+).
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Additionally, Autoconf includes a licensing exception in some of its
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source files; see the respective copyright notices for how your
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project is impacted by including scripts generated by Autoconf, and the
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COPYING.EXCEPTION file for the exception in terms of the Additional
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Permissions as described in section 7 of GPLv3.
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For more licensing information, see
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html> and
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>.
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For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
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note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
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-----
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Copyright (C) 1992-1994, 1998, 2000-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
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without warranty of any kind.
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