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-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".