Autoconf

Registered by Registry Administrators

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 1.4 or later) 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).

Project information

Part of:
The GNU Project
Maintainer:
Registry Administrators
Driver:
Not yet selected
Licence:
GNU GPL v2, GNU GPL v3

RDF metadata

View full history Series and milestones

main series is the current focus of development.

All code Code

Version control system:
Bazaar

All packages Packages in Distributions

Get Involved

  • warning
    Report a bug
  • warning
    Ask a question
  • warning
    Help translate

Downloads

Latest version is 2.72e
released

All downloads