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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 must install GNU M4 (version 1.4 or later) and Perl (5.005_03
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or later) before configuring Autoconf, so that Autoconf's configure
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script can find them. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf
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are self-contained, so their users do not need to have Autoconf (or
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GNU M4, Perl etc.).
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Vanilla GNU m4 1.4 has some serious bugs, so we recommend using m4 1.4
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as patched by the standard GNU/Linux distributions. If you're
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building GNU m4 1.4 from scratch we suggest using 1.4.2 or later.
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You can get 1.4.2 here:
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.2.tar.gz
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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 version is not an official
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release) 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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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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-----
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Autoconf.
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GNU Autoconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Autoconf; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
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the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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