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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, June 25, 2007 12:03:00 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:25:34 am | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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They include:
* Autoconf (the thing that generates <tt>configure</tt> scripts)
* Automake (the thing that generates MakeFile~s from <tt>Makefile.am</tt> sources)
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+!configure file
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+configure probes the systems for required functions, libraries, and tools and then it generates a config.h file with all #defines as well as [MakeFile]s to build the package.
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Notes:
* [a site full of useful autoconf macros|http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/]
