2A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE GNU AUTOTOOLS
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.—T.S. Eliot, “Quartet No. 4: Little Gidding”
As stated in the preface to this book, the purpose of the GNU Autotools is to make life simpler for the end user, not the maintainer. Nevertheless, using the Autotools will make your job as a project maintainer easier in the long run, although maybe not for the reasons you suspect. The Autotools framework is as simple as it can be, given the functionality it provides. The real purpose of the Autotools is twofold: it serves ...
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