Changeset 673b0d8 for chapter06/autoconf.xml

Timestamp:

05/03/2004 10:59:46 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

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• Merged newxml into HEAD

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• chapter06/autoconf.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter06/autoconf.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
 <sect1 id="ch-system-autoconf" xreflabel="Autoconf">
-<title>Installing Autoconf-&autoconf-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="autoconf.html" dir="chapter06"?>
+<title>Autoconf-&autoconf-version;</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="autoconf.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf"><primary sortas="a-Autoconf">Autoconf</primary></indexterm>
 
 <para>The Autoconf package contains programs for producing shell scripts that
 can automatically configure source code.</para>
 
-<screen>&buildtime; &autoconf-time;
-&diskspace; &autoconf-compsize;</screen>
+<screen>&buildtime; 0.5 SBU
+&diskspace; 7.7 MB</screen>
 
-&aa-autoconf-down;
-&aa-autoconf-dep;
+<para>Autoconf installation depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Grep,
+M4, Make, Perl, Sed.</para>
 
-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Autoconf</title>
@@ -24 +31 @@
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>To have the results tested, issue:
+<para>To test the results, issue:
 <userinput>make check</userinput>. This takes a long time, about 2 SBUs.</para>
 
-<para>And install the package:</para>
+<para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
@@ -33 +40 @@
 </sect2>
 
-&aa-autoconf-shortdesc;
-&aa-autoconf-desc;
+
+<sect2 id="contents-autoconf"><title>Contents of Autoconf</title>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: autoconf, autoheader, autom4te,
+autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate and ifnames</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoconf"><primary sortas="b-autoconf">autoconf</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autoconf"><command>autoconf</command> is a tool for producing shell scripts
+that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many
+kinds of Unix-like systems. The configuration scripts it produces are
+independent -- running them does not require the autoconf program.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoheader"><primary sortas="b-autoheader">autoheader</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autoheader"><command>autoheader</command> is a tool for creating template files
+of C #define statements for configure to use.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autom4te"><primary sortas="b-autom4te">autom4te</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autom4te"><command>autom4te</command> is a wrapper for the M4 macro
+processor.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoreconf"><primary sortas="b-autoreconf">autoreconf</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autoreconf"><command>autoreconf</command> comes in handy when there are a lot
+of autoconf-generated configure scripts around. The program runs autoconf and
+autoheader repeatedly (where appropriate) to remake the autoconf configure
+scripts and configuration header templates in a given directory tree.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoscan"><primary sortas="b-autoscan">autoscan</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autoscan"><command>autoscan</command> can help to create a
+<filename>configure.in</filename> file for a software package. It examines
+the source files in a directory tree, searching them for common portability
+problems and creates a <filename>configure.scan</filename> file that serves as
+as a preliminary <filename>configure.in</filename> for the package.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoupdate"><primary sortas="b-autoupdate">autoupdate</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="autoupdate"><command>autoupdate</command> modifies a
+<filename>configure.in</filename> file that still calls autoconf macros
+by their old names to use the current macro names.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf ifnames"><primary sortas="b-ifnames">ifnames</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="ifnames"><command>ifnames</command> can be helpful when writing a
+<filename>configure.in</filename> for a software package. It prints the
+identifiers that the package uses in C preprocessor conditionals. If a package
+has already been set up to have some portability, this program can help to
+determine what <command>configure</command> needs to check. It can fill
+in some gaps in a <filename>configure.in</filename> file generated by
+autoscan.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
 
 </sect1>
-