Autoconf

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

GNU Autoconf is a software development tool for generating a configure script that in turn generates files for building a codebase and for packaging or installing the resulting files. Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System – along with Automake, Libtool, Autoheader and other tools.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Autoconf”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Free Software Foundation, Inc., GPL, via Wikimedia Commons.