Friday, 17 August 2018

autoconf in Cygwin

Cygwin installer allows you to select latest or stable version of autoconf.

Autoconf uses M4 macros (thanks Kernighan and Ritchie) to produce shell scripts which in turn automatically configure source code packages. M4 converts input to output expanding macros as it goes (here's how). If there are no macros, well, the input is the output.

M4 needs to be installed before autoconf. Perl is also a prerequisite.

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