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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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4CONFIGURING YOUR PROJECT WITH AUTOCONF

Come my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”

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The Autoconf project has had a long history, starting in 1992 when David McKenzie, while volunteering for the Free Software Foundation, was looking for a way to simplify the process of creating the complex configuration scripts necessary to support the target platforms that were being added daily at that time to the GNU project. At the same time, he was working on his bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park.

After McKenzie’s initial work on Autoconf, he continued to be a strong ...

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ISBN: 9781098122577