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diff --git a/util/autoconf/README b/util/autoconf/README deleted file mode 100644 index 959b195..0000000 --- a/util/autoconf/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -Autoconf - -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. - -The file INSTALL can be distributed with packages that use -Autoconf-generated configure scripts and Makefiles that conform to the -GNU coding standards. The package's README can just give an overview -of the package, where to report bugs, and a pointer to INSTALL for -instructions on compilation and installation. This removes the need -to maintain many similar sets of installation instructions. - -The file `acconfig.h' contains short descriptions of the C preprocessor -variables that Autoconf can define, suitable for copying into other -packages' configuration headers or Makefile.in files. You can use the -program `autoheader' to automatically create a configuration header -from a `configure.in', based on the information in `acconfig.h'. - -Mail suggestions and bug reports for Autoconf to -bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. Please include the Autoconf version -number, which you can get by running "autoconf --version". |