About:
Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the package to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention.

Author:
Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, Pavel, Tom <autoconf (at) gnu (dot) org> [contact developer]

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8.38/10.00 (14 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Software Development

Dependencies: [change]
diffutils (Default branch) (required)
GNU awk (required)
GNU Bash (Default branch) (required)
GNU m4 (required)
GNU make (required)
GNU texinfo (required)
grep (required)
sed (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.61	25-Jun-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.49e	20-Apr-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.61	Minor feature enhancements	25-Jun-2007 11:11
2.59	Major bugfixes	17-Jan-2004 07:26
2.57	N/A	12-Jan-2003 16:31
2.56	Minor bugfixes	15-Nov-2002 18:20
2.54	N/A	20-Sep-2002 06:56
2.53	Major feature enhancements	09-Mar-2002 16:35
2.52	Major bugfixes	18-Jul-2001 18:24
2.50	Major feature enhancements	21-May-2001 21:51
2.13	N/A	06-Jan-1999 13:59

 Articles referencing this project

• Die Hard Make Habits
  by Adrian Neagu , in Editorials
  Sat, Sep 1st 2007 00:00
  
• Make alternatives
  by Adrian Neagu , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Jul 9th 2005 00:00
  
• Stop the autoconf insanity! Why we need a new build system.
  by Andrew McCall , in Editorials
  Sat, Jun 21st 2003 00:00
  
• The Universal Source Package
  by Bud P. Bruegger , in Editorials
  Sat, Feb 12th 2000 23:59