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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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Wrapping Up

I hope you find these solutions—indeed, this book—useful to you on your quest to create a really great user experience with your open source projects. I began this book with the statement that people often start out hating the Autotools because they don't understand the purpose of the Autotools. By now, you should have a fairly well developed sense of this purpose. If you were disinclined to use the Autotools before, then I hope I've given you reason to reconsider.

Recall the famously misquoted line from Albert Einstein, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."[161] Not all things can be made so simple that anyone can master them with little training. This is especially true when it comes to processes that ...

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