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GNU build system

The GNU build system 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

  • GNU Autoconf
  • GNU Automake
  • GNU Libtool

    • Other related tools include

  • GNU Make
  • GNU Gettext
  • The pkg-config tool
  • GNU Compiler Collection

    • 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 (computing) file. It is then intended that the users should generate it by themselves. It is done like this:

    aclocal autoconf automake ./configure

    = External links =

  • The book GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool , by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor.
  • ISBN 1578701902
  • available online at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook under the terms of the Open Publication License (with none of the options exercised).
  • The [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html GNU Coding Standards] (especially the chapter on The Release Process ).
  • The [http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ pkg-config] package
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