autoconf: The GNU Build System

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1 2 The GNU Build System
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1 Autoconf solves an important problem--reliable discovery of
1 system-specific build and runtime information--but this is only one
1 piece of the puzzle for the development of portable software.  To this
1 end, the GNU project has developed a suite of integrated utilities to
1 finish the job Autoconf started: the GNU build system, whose most
1 important components are Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool.  In this
1 chapter, we introduce you to those tools, point you to sources of more
1 information, and try to convince you to use the entire GNU build system
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· Automake                    Escaping makefile hell
· Gnulib                      The GNU portability library
· Libtool                     Building libraries portably
· Pointers                    More info on the GNU build system
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