Autoconf

As mentioned previously, autoconf does a lot of the build-specific testing and configuration.

  • Parsing configuration arguments.

  • Testing for the existence of various files and functions.

  • Creating Makefile.in files for later processing by the configure script.

  • Creating the config.h file from autoheader's config.h.in template.

24. General Setup Of configure.in
25. Checking For Functions and Files
26. Conditional Compiler Flag Setting
27. Argument Parsing
28. Custom Arguments
29. Variable Substitution
30. An Example Of AC_SUBST In Practice
31. Third Party Macros
32. An Example Macro