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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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INTRODUCTION

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Few software developers would deny that GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool (the Autotools) have revolutionized the open source software world. But while there are many thousands of Autotools advocates, there are also many developers who hate the Autotools—with a passion. The reason for this dread of the Autotools, I think, is that when you use the Autotools, you have to understand the underlying infrastructure that they manage. Otherwise, you'll 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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