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.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
Bugfixes and cleanups; this is the release candidate for 2.50.

Author:
Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, Pavel, Tom <autoconf __at__ gnu __dot__ org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.45/10.00 (16 votes)

Tar/GZ:
ftp://alpha.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]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.63	15-Sep-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.49e	20-Apr-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.49e	Minor bugfixes	20-Apr-2001 20:16
2.49d	Minor feature enhancements	19-Mar-2001 17:11
2.49c	N/A	26-Jan-2001 18:41
2.49b	N/A	07-Dec-2000 20:35
2.49a	N/A	12-Sep-2000 05:21

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