Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the package to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention.
| Tags | Software Development |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases


Changes: Recent regressions in the AC_INIT, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, and AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macros were resolved. A new AC_FC_LINE_LENGTH macro was added to accept long Fortran source code lines. AC_PREPROC_IFELSE was enhanced. Parallel execution of the test suite now works again.


Changes: Recent regressions in the macros AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_TYPE_INT8_T, AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T, and AC_PROG_INSTALL were fixed. AC_CHECK_DECL and AC_CHECK_DECLS now accept optional function argument types for overloaded C++ functions. Several undocumented macros were improved and documented. Other minor changes were made.


Changes: The package is now licensed under the GPLv3+. New macros were added: AC_PROG_OBJCXX, AC_PROG_OBJCXXCPP, AT_CHECK_EUNIT, and m4_escape. AH_CHECK_HEADERS was reinstated. Bbugs in AC_LANG_COMPILER, AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_TYPE_UINT64_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T, and AC_FUNC_MMAP were fixed. `$tmp' in config.status is now documented. The config.status now provides a --config option.


Changes: Many macros were added and improved. Several bugs were fixed.


Changes: The AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION, AC_OPENMP, and AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK macros were added. AC_C_BIGENDIAN now supports universal binaries like those used by Mac OS X. Performance was improved. Many bugfixes and enhancements were made.