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Re: autotools automake autoconf
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Ron Baker, Pluralitas! |
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Re: autotools automake autoconf |
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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:52:05 -0800 |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.2401.1167224300.2155.gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org...
> I'm looking at the simple examples and it is
> talking about .m4 files. wtf.
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> Well, yes, since auto* uses m4, it would be strange if the auto*
> documentation wouldn't have anything about the very language that is
> used to write autoconf scripts.
>
I first learned of m4 twenty years ago, when I
was just learning Unix. Then after a couple
years I actually used m4. I thought it was pretty
cool. Then I never heard any mention of m4
until yesterday. Strange.
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rb