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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-autoconf" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="autoconf.html"?>
-
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>autoconf</productname>
- <productnumber>&autoconf-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&autoconf-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
-
- <title>Autoconf-&autoconf-version;</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf">
- <primary sortas="a-Autoconf">Autoconf</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
-
- <para>The Autoconf package contains programs for producing shell scripts that
- can automatically configure source code.</para>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&autoconf-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&autoconf-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Autoconf</title>
-
- <para>First, fix a bug generated by Perl 5.28.</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '361 s/{/\\{/' -i bin/autoscan.in</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Prepare Autoconf for compilation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>-->
- <para>The test suite is currently broken by bash-5 and libtool-2.4.3.
- To run the tests anyway, issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>This takes a long time, about &autoconf-ch6-sbu-tests; SBUs. In addition,
- several tests are skipped that use Automake. For full test coverage,
- Autoconf can be re-tested after Automake has been installed. In addition,
- two tests fail due to changes in libtool-2.4.3 and later.</para>
-
- <note><para>The test time for autoconf can be reduced significantly on a
- system with multiple cores. To do this, append
- <command>TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j&lt;N&gt;</command> to the line above. For
- instance, using -j4 can reduce the test time by over 60
- percent.</para></note>
--->
- <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contents-autoconf" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Autoconf</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
- and ifnames</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/autoconf</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="autoconf">
- <term><command>autoconf</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Produces shell scripts that automatically configure software
- source code packages to adapt to many kinds of Unix-like systems;
- the configuration scripts it produces are independent&mdash;running
- them does not require the <command>autoconf</command> program</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoconf">
- <primary sortas="b-autoconf">autoconf</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="autoheader">
- <term><command>autoheader</command> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A tool for creating template files of C
- <emphasis>#define</emphasis> statements for configure to use</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoheader">
- <primary sortas="b-autoheader">autoheader</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="autom4te">
- <term><command>autom4te</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A wrapper for the M4 macro processor</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autom4te">
- <primary sortas="b-autom4te">autom4te</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="autoreconf">
- <term><command>autoreconf</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Automatically runs <command>autoconf</command>,
- <command>autoheader</command>, <command>aclocal</command>,
- <command>automake</command>, <command>gettextize</command>, and
- <command>libtoolize</command> in the correct order to save time
- when changes are made to <command>autoconf</command> and
- <command>automake</command> template files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoreconf">
- <primary sortas="b-autoreconf">autoreconf</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="autoscan">
- <term><command>autoscan</command> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Helps to create a <filename>configure.in</filename> file for a
- software package; it examines the source files in a directory tree,
- searching them for common portability issues, and creates a
- <filename>configure.scan</filename> file that serves as as a
- preliminary <filename>configure.in</filename> file for the
- package</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoscan">
- <primary sortas="b-autoscan">autoscan</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="autoupdate">
- <term><command>autoupdate</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Modifies a <filename>configure.in</filename> file that still
- calls <command>autoconf</command> macros by their old names to use the
- current macro names</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf autoupdate">
- <primary sortas="b-autoupdate">autoupdate</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="ifnames">
- <term><command>ifnames</command> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Helps when writing <filename>configure.in</filename> files
- for a software package; it prints the identifiers that the package
- uses in C preprocessor conditionals [If a package has already been set
- up to have some portability, this program can help determine what
- <command>configure</command> needs to check for. It can also fill in
- gaps in a <filename>configure.in</filename> file generated by
- <command>autoscan</command>.]</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-autoconf ifnames">
- <primary sortas="b-ifnames">ifnames</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>