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Autotools, 2nd Edition
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Autotools, 2nd Edition

by John Calcote
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
584 pages
17h 16m
English
No Starch Press
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2A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE GNU AUTOTOOLS

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.—T.S. Eliot, “Quartet No. 4: Little Gidding”

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As stated in the preface to this book, the purpose of the GNU Autotools is to make life simpler for the end user, not the maintainer. Nevertheless, using the Autotools will make your job as a project maintainer easier in the long run, although maybe not for the reasons you suspect. The Autotools framework is as simple as it can be, given the functionality it provides. The real purpose of the Autotools is twofold: it serves ...

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ISBN: 9781098122577