1AN END USER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE GNU AUTOTOOLS
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.—Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
If you’re not a software developer, either by trade or by hobby, you may still have a need or desire at some point to build open source software to be installed on your computer. Perhaps you’re a graphic artist who wishes to use the latest version of GIMP, or maybe you’re a video enthusiast and you need to build a late version of FFmpeg. This chapter, therefore, may be the only one you read in this book. I hope that is not the case, because even a power user can gain so much more by striving to understand ...
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