"Autoconf is an extensible package of [m4] macros that produce [shell] [script]s to automatically configure software source code packages,"
according to its official home page
[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/].  But it ''really'' is ...  for the purpose of ...
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'''autoconf''' acts on '''configure.in''' to generate '''configure'''.

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This 
[http://la-samhna.de/library/compile/configure.html] "Compile-Howto"
usefully introduces autoconf.

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[drh] describes
"Using Autoconf With [Mktclapp]"
[http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/autoconf.html].

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"Stop the autoconf insanity! Why we need a new build system."
[http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/889/]







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