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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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INTRODUCTION

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Few open source software developers would deny that GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool (the Autotools) have revolutionized the open source software world. However, although there are many thousands of Autotools advocates, there are also many software developers who hate the Autotools—with a passion. I believe the reason for this dread of the Autotools is that when you use them without understanding the underlying infrastructure they manage, you find yourself fighting against the system.

This book solves this problem by first providing a framework for understanding the underlying infrastructure of the Autotools and then building on ...

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ISBN: 9781098122577