autoconf-2.57: description + notes
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.
Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU m4. You
must install GNU m4 (version 1.1 or later, preferably 1.3 or later for
better performance) before configuring Autoconf, so that Autoconf's
configure script can find it. The configuration scripts produced by
Autoconf are self-contained, so their users do not need to have
Autoconf (or GNU m4).
Also, some optional utilities that come with Autoconf use Perl,
TCL, and the TCL packages Expect and
DejaGNU. However, none of those are required in order to use
the main Autoconf program. If they are not present, the affected
Autoconf utilities will not be installed.
To auto-install this package, go back and click on the respective install icon.
