GNU Autoconf Reference Manual

Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls.

The Autoconf Reference Manual provides beginners with a simple introduction to the basics, and experts will find advanced details they need.

In this you will see the following things below.

- 1 Introduction

- 2 The GNU Build System

- 3 Making configure Scripts

- 4 Initialization and Output Files

- 5 Existing Tests

- 6 Writing Tests

- 7 Results of Tests

- 8 Programming in M4

- 9 Programming in M4sh

- 10 Writing Autoconf Macros

- 11 Portable Shell Programming

- 12 Portable Make Programming

- 13 Portable C and C++ Programming

- 14 Manual Configuration

- 15 Site Configuration

- 16 Running configure Scripts

- 17 config.status Invocation

- 18 Obsolete Constructs

- 19 Generating Test Suites with Autotest

- 20 Frequent Autoconf Questions, with answers

- 21 History of Autoconf

- Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License

- Appendix B Indices

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