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Introduction
This document describes the GNU configure and build systems. It
describes how autoconf, automake, libtool, and make fit together. It
also includes a discussion of the older Cygnus configure system.
This document does not describe in detail how to use each of the
tools; see the respective manuals for that. Instead, it describes
which files the developer must write, which files are machine generated
and how they are generated, and where certain common problems should be
addressed.
This document draws on several sources, including the autoconf
manual by David MacKenzie (*note autoconf overview: (autoconf)Top.),
the automake manual by David MacKenzie and Tom Tromey (*note automake
overview: (automake)Top.), the libtool manual by Gordon Matzigkeit
(*note libtool overview: (libtool)Top.), and the Cygnus configure
manual by K. Richard Pixley.
Created Wed Sep 1 16:41:58 2004 on bee with info_to_html version 0.9.6.