Autotools

Acknowledgments

I could not have written a technical book like this without the help of a lot of people. I would like to thank Bill Pollock and the editors and staff at No Starch Press for their patience with a first-time author. They made the process interesting and fun (and a little painful at times).

Additionally, I'd like to thank the authors and maintainers of the GNU Autotools for giving the world a standard to live up to and a set of tools that make it simpler to do so. Specifically, I'd like to thank Ralf Wildenhues, who believed in this project enough to spend hundreds of hours of his personal time in technical review. His comments and insight were invaluable in taking this book from mere wishful thinking to an accurate and useful text. ...