Gnu Build System

The GNU build system, also called the GNU Autotools is a suite of tools produced by the GNU project that assist in making packages portable to many UNIX-like systems. It is part of GNU toolchain. It comprises Other related tools include
  • GNU make
  • GNU gettext
The GNU build system is widely used in many free software and open source packages. While the tools comprising the GNU build system themselves are GPL-ed free software, there are no restrictions in using them in making non-free software portable. Sometimes programs distributed in source code form do not contain a configure file. It is then intended that the users should generate it by themselves. It is done like this:
   aclocal   autoconf   automake   ./configure 

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