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Autotools
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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Installing the Most Up-to-Date Autotools

If you're running a variant of Linux and you've chosen to install the compilers and tools used for developing C-language software, you probably already have some version of the Autotools installed on your system. To determine which versions of autoconf, automake, and libtool you're using, simply open a terminal window and type the following commands:

$ which autoconf
/usr/local/bin/autoconf
$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, ...
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