Chapter 23. Migrating an Existing Package to GNU Autotools
Sometimes you have to take an existing package and wrap it in an Autoconf framework. This is called autoconfiscating[1] a package.
[1] A term coined by Noah Friedman in the early days of Autoconf to denote the process of converting a package that configures itself without Autoconf to one that does.
This chapter gives an overview of various approaches that have been taken when autoconfiscating, explains some important points through examples, and discusses some potential pitfalls. It is not an exhaustive guide to autoconfis-cation, because this process is much more art than it is science.
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