July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
In Item 5: Hacking Autoconf Macros in Item 5: Hacking Autoconf Macros, I demonstrated a technique for hacking Autoconf macros to provide functionality that's close to, but not exactly the same as, that of the original macro. When you need a macro that Autoconf doesn't provide, you can either write it yourself or look for one that someone else has written. This item is about the second option, and a perfect place to begin your search is the Autoconf Macro Archive project.
As of this writing, the Autoconf Macro Archive is hosted by the GNU Savannah project at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/autoconf-archive/. The current ac-archive project is the result of a merger between two older projects, one by Guido ...