Autoconf
Sign in to saveGNU Autoconf is a software development tool for generating a configure script that in turn generates files for building a codebase and for packaging or installing the resulting files. Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System along with Automake, Libtool, Autoheader and other tools.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Autoconf
- Software.logo
- Heckert GNU white.svg
- Software.logo size
- 100px
- Software.author
- David Mackenzie
- Software.developer
- GNU Project
- Software.released
- 1991
- Software.programming language
- Perl
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Programming tool
- Software.license
- GNU GPL
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- GNU build system
- Movement
- free software movement
- Developer
- GNU Project
- Official website
- www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
- Image
- Autoconf 2.68 wine.png
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- Commons category
- GNU Autoconf
- copyright holder
- Q48413
- source code repository URL
- ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf
- copyright license
- Q27016754
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- software version identifier
- 2.73
- programmed in
- m4
- user manual URL
- www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html
- inception
- 1991-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Usage overview
- History
- Approach
- Behavior
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- External links
GNU Autoconf is a software development tool for generating a configure script that in turn generates files for building a codebase and for packaging or installing the resulting files. Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System along with Automake, Libtool, Autoheader and other tools.
Autoconf is agnostic about the programming language of the codebase to build. None-the-less, it is primarily used with C, C++, Fortran, Erlang, or Objective-C.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Autoconf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.