autoconf@2.69 ☆

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Description:
Automatic configure script builder

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Nov 25, 2024

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: gnu build-system portability configure development

Install: brew install autoconf@2.69

About:
Autoconf is a GNU tool for automatically generating configuration scripts for software packages. It tests system capabilities and adapts the build process to the specific environment, ensuring portability across different Unix-like systems. Its primary value is in simplifying the creation of portable, self-configuring source code distributions.

Key Features:

Generates portable configure scripts from `configure.ac` templates
Tests for system-specific features, functions, and libraries
Produces `config.h` header files with platform-specific definitions
Supports M4 macro language for extensible configuration checks
Standard tool for building GNU and many other open-source projects

Use Cases:

Preparing source code for distribution to be built on diverse Unix-like systems
Automating system capability detection and configuration for software compilation

Alternatives:

CMake – Modern, cross-platform build system generator; not a direct replacement but a different paradigm.
Meson – Modern build system with simpler syntax and cross-platform support; uses different configuration files.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 25, 2024 3:34pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	19fbb612
Sep 14, 2024 7:33pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	4d014000