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1<sect2>
2<title>Contents</title>
3
4<para>The Autoconf package contains the autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf,
5autoscan, autoupdate and ifnames programs</para>
6
7</sect2>
8
9<sect2><title>Description</title>
10
11<sect3><title>autoconf</title>
12<para>Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically
13configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of
14UNIX-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are
15independent of Autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to
16have Autoconf.</para></sect3>
17
18<sect3><title>autoheader</title>
19<para>The autoheader program can create a template file of C #define
20statements for configure to use</para></sect3>
21
22<sect3><title>autoreconf</title>
23<para>If there are a lot of Autoconf-generated configure scripts, the
24autoreconf program can save some work. It runs autoconf (and
25autoheader, where appropriate) repeatedly to remake the Autoconf
26configure scripts and configuration header templates in the directory
27tree rooted at the current directory.</para></sect3>
28
29<sect3><title>autoscan</title>
30<para>The autoscan program can help to create a configure.in file for
31a software package. autoscan examines source files in the directory
32tree rooted at a directory given as a command line argument, or the
33current directory if none is given. It searches the source files for
34common portability problems and creates a file configure.scan which
35is a preliminary configure.in for that package.</para></sect3>
36
37<sect3><title>autoupdate</title>
38<para>The autoupdate program updates a configure.in file that calls
39Autoconf macros by their old names to use the current
40macro names.</para></sect3>
41
42<sect3><title>ifnames</title>
43<para>ifnames can help when writing a configure.in for a software
44package. It prints the identifiers that the package already uses in C
45preprocessor conditionals. If a package has already been set up to
46have some portability, this program can help to figure out what its
47configure needs to check for. It may help fill in some gaps in a
48configure.in generated by autoscan.</para></sect3>
49
50</sect2>
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