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Example Configurations

M4 Macros

Code Snippets

To include an M4 file, use the sinclude function, e.g.

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builtin(include, /some/custom/macro.m4)

Important Macros

Checking files

AC_CHECK_FILE
AC_CHECK_FILES

Checking libs

AC_CHECK_LIB

Checking for programs

AC_CHECK_PROG

Messages

AC_MSG_CHECKING
AC_MSG_NOTICE
AC_MSG_RESULT
AC_MSG_WARN

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AC_SUBST
AC_SUBST_FILE

Links

Huge Mozilla configure.inAutconf Manual on Single HTML Page

http://lxrwww.mozillagnu.org/seamonkeysoftware/source/configure.in

Guide to writing configure.in

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/misc/tools/configure/configure_inautoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_mono/autoconf.html

Current GNU Autoconf manual in PDF

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http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/macros-by-category.html

Autobook.

http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html

Checking for OpenGL (example)

http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ax_check_gl.html

Mozilla's configure.in

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/configure.in

Guide to writing configure.in

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/misc/tools/configure/configure_in.html

GNUlib's m4 macros

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/

Autoconf.info

http://www.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/info?(autoconf.info)Top