A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for the given build, host, or target architecture config. Using autoconf, programmers can create portable and configurable packages, since the person building the package is allowed to specify various configuration options. Im trying to create an autoconf script that generates a config. Discovering the presence of libraries through autoconf as described in section 4, finding libraries is somewhat limiting. The primary advantage of doing this is that i can now run make in any subdirectory. Gnu autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and makefiles. Autoconfgenerated configure scripts can make decisions based on a. Every single one of those macros can be reused without imposing any restrictions whatsoever on the licensing of the generated configure script.
The problem is that my apt and for that matter dpkg has an infinite loop in it. This is an autoconf input file, and the autoconf manual describes in detail what this file should look like. Im writing my own unit testing library using autoconf, automake, and libtool to better fit my needs i dont need a super large amount of features, just a test runner and assertions. I tried yum update autoconf, but it responded as autoconf is already updated one probably, i need to find a yum repository that has latest autoconf. Autoconfgenerated configure scripts need some information about how to initialize, such as how to find the packages source files. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features.
It uses data files instead of scripts to limit the spreading of trojans in software packages. I have gotten to the point where it seems to be usable. If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site, the command info autoconf. New riders graciously indulged our principles, and published this book under the terms of the open publication license with none of the options exercised. If host is set, and build is not set, the current autoconf would make a test program run and if it succeeds, it considers we are not crosscompiling. The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are selfcontained, so the users of your project do not need autoconf, m4, or perl to run configure. Autoconf download apk, deb, eopkg, ipk, rpm, tgz, txz, xz.
Gnus autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and makefiles. But it is also possible to put them in a subdirectory, altogether with other configuration support files like installsh, ltconfig, ltmain. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of unixlike systems without manual user intervention. This package installs an uptodate version of config. The gnu configure and build system getting started. Home cannot run cannot run bin sh autotools config sub cannot run bin sh autotools config sub. The gnu autoconf archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for gnu autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the internet. A configuration validation subroutine script depcomp. When i began this page late in 1997, the most recent releases 2. Download the attached source archive for the original sources. You do this by creating site and systemwide initialization files. For example, the details of the object file format, or special options that need to be.
Configautoconf a module to implement some of autoconf. To create all the s for a package, run the automake program in the top level directory, with no arguments. Download autoconf packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, openwrt, pclinuxos. Autoconf is often used together with the following software systems. This version of autoconf is not compatible with scripts meant for autoconf 2. Autoconfgenerated configure scripts allow your site to provide default values for some configuration values.
For many software packages that use autotools particularly in the x11 bundle the files config. If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site, the command info. If want just want to download a cab file see wince this page explains how to build navit for wincewinmobile with cegcc in november 2009 versions compiled using armcegccgcc both revision 1214 and release 0. Autoconf is a gplv2licensed package of macros that produces a shell script configure to generate a makefile and config header for a project. Libjpegturbousers failed to configure libjpegturbo when build it for ios arm64. Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. If you think you have found a bug in gnu autoconf, then please send as complete a report as possible to org. All you need to do, other than moving the files, is to add the following.
The full documentation for autoconf is maintained as a texinfo manual. Helloworld example to try packaging toolchain by jb 20090712 based on. This is only useful if you write your own programs or if you extensively modify other peoples programs. Well this fails on a linux mint with wine installed by default and probably ubuntu, and likely even any debian and derivative. Autoconf will tell you immediately if it cant find this fileafter all, thats the purpose of this macro in the first place. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system. The full documentation for autoreconf is maintained as a texinfo manual.
Autoconf was written chiefly by david mackenzie, with input from many people, starting in 1991. The following sections describe initialization and creating output files. Less recent versions are also contained in the gnu automake and gnu libtool packages normally, config. How to install or update autoconf and automake on rhel. To start using the gnu configure and build system with your software package, you must write three files, and you must run some tools to manually generate additional files. It provides the canonical copy of those files for other packages as well. Go to the previous, next section initialization and output files. Jonas smedegaard supplier of updated ucommon package this message was generated automatically at their request. Extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. Consequently the content of the book is truly free, and you can download the html of the onlne version for reading offline, either as a zip archive 860k or a gzipped tar archive 352k. Pre make kit pmk aims to be a bsd alternative to gnu autoconf, gnu libtool, and pkgconfig.
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