The autotools design is that you ship a version of the auto files with your packaged tarball and that is used until you do a new release. Scons scons is a software construction tool that is a superior alternative to the classic make build too. Extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. Autoconf macro archive aims to provide a central repository of useful and tested autoconf macros. Aug 23, 2005 autoconf is commonly coupled with another tool, autoheader, which creates a config. Autoconfarchive download for linux apk, deb, eopkg, rpm. The native debian package can be created by setting the debiansourceformat file to 3. Download autoconf packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, openwrt, pclinuxos. The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are selfcontained, so the users of your project do not need autoconf, m4, or.
Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. If you install new versions of the gnu build system, you can make. Autoconf macro archive aims to provide a central repository of useful and tested autoconf macros for software. Feb 16, 2020 modifies a file that still calls autoconf macros by their old names to use the current macro names. The purpose of nagios autoconf macros is to have a central place for autoconf macros that can be maintained in one place, but be used by any of the nagios software. If the macro file is available to the system in usrshareautoconf for instance the macro will be picked up from there.
Particularly with regard to updating autofoo to cater for new architectures. If there are problems, they can be identified faster remember that an extra autoconf macro file is in a distant place perhaps and the original configure. The autoconf tool has a parameter i that allows adding a directory to the search path for the conversion. I dont know when this happened, but i had the same problem with a 3. A gnu tool for automatically configuring source code. I think its to do with the ultratight but annoying set up they have on rackspace cloud servers.
The aclocal tool creates a repository of macros that are specified. It provides processing and handling of xml key management specifications xkms messages. So, this is a synthetic tutorial for moving a makefilebased program to an autohell this is a popular way to refer to autoconf, automake, libtool that i will encourage enabled package. There are definitely cons to the way the autotools work. These tools let you compile gnu software on a wide variety of platforms and unix and unixlike operating systems. Some people do hate the implications of the way the autotools use m4. The package should be updated to follow the last version of debian policy standardsversion 4. Autoconf was written chiefly by david mackenzie, with input from many people, starting in 1991. Installing m4 macro processor on ubuntu linux geeks. Autoconf download apk, deb, eopkg, ipk, rpm, tgz, txz, xz. An easy solution is to copy such thirdparty macros in your local m4 directory so they get distributed. The package is severely out of date with respect to the debian policy. The autoconf macro archive provides documented and tested macros that are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too specific to be included into autoconf itself. The full documentation for autoreconf is maintained as a texinfo manual.
Extensible package of m4 macros that produce portable shell scripts to automatically. Is it a bug or do i have to do something else to prevent including the directory m4 for aclocal. It is important to run aclocal first because automake relies on the contents of and aclocal. 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. In version 2 of autoconf, most of the macros were renamed to use a more uniform and descriptive naming scheme. Firstly, on phpize, then phpdevel, then on autoconf and automake. If the info and autoreconf programs are properly installed at your site, the command info autoreconf. New riders graciously indulged our principles, and published this book under the terms of the open publication license with none of the options exercised. The autoconf tool is run in the current directory for the current file or folder selected for the project. Introduction to the autotools autoconf, automake, and. See section macro names, for a description of the new scheme.
The autoconf development tool creates a shell script for a package from the configure. 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. The magic behind configure, make, make install thoughtbot. This version of autoconf is not compatible with scripts meant for autoconf 2. How to install or update autoconf and automake on rhel. Autoconf is used by phpize to compile php extensions like xdebug and is something i use on a reasonably frequent basis.
Go to the previous, next section initialization and output files. 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. And i also agree that i dont really want to set macro directory to the root directory of my project. I have tried yum, and various repositories, with no luck. If the info and autoconf programs are properly installed at your site, the command. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of unixlike systems without manual user intervention. Format report the list of calls to macro i, initialization also trace autoconfs initialization process. Im trying to build a driver from sources ive downloaded from ftp. Autoconf is a gplv2licensed package of macros that produces a shell script configure to generate a makefile and config header for a project. Every single one of those macros can be reused without imposing any restrictions whatsoever on the licensing of the generated configure script. Debian details of package autoconfarchive in jessie. This page gives some tips to packagers on how to use autoconf when packaging.
The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are selfcontained, so the users of your project do not need autoconf, m4, or perl to run configure. Installing m4 macro processor on ubuntu linux geeks worldwide. Autoconfgenerated configure scripts need some information about how to initialize, such as how to find the packages source files. Anyways, i solved the issue by installing autoconf 2.
What it is useful for is to avoid using the full path name of a macro file, letting it be picked up either from the system or from the local directory giving priority to the system copy. In this case, the macro file is included with the generic base name value of pkg. Gnu autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing and packaging software on computer systems where a bourne shell is available. When i began this page late in 1997, the most recent releases 2. I just renamed and this seemed to fix that specific problem. Autoconf macro archive aims to provide a central repository of useful and tested autoconf macros for software developers around the world. The following sections describe initialization and creating output files. After running autoconf, you will find a configure script in the current directory.
This package contains the files necessary for running applications that. In tracing mode, no configuration script is created. Format report the list of calls to macro i, initialization also trace autoconfs initialization process in tracing mode, no configuration script is created. Download autoconf archive packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware. This short tutorial shows you how to install m4 macro processor on ubuntu linux server. 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. Autoconf download apk, deb, eopkg, ipk, rpm, tgz, txz, xz, zst. The tarball containing the source is generated by this. This command is also not used to discover macro files. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system. The autotools particularly autoconf are based on the m4 macro processor, which does create some gotchas. The autotools plugins were migrated from the linux tools project. The core of gnus compile chain the set of tools used to build gnu software packages is the socalled autotools, a term that refers to the autoconf and automake programs, as well as libtoolize, autoheader, pkgconfig, and sometimes gettext.
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