October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 9m
English
The aclocal program creates the file 'aclocal.m4' by combining stock-installed macros, user-defined macros, and the contents of 'acinclude.m4' to define all the macros required by 'configure.in' in a single file. aclocal was created as a fix for some missing functionality in Autoconf, and as such we consider it a wart. In due course, aclocal itself will disappear, and Autoconf will perform the same function unaided.
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