Chapter 4. MORE FUN WITH AUTOCONF: CONFIGURING USER OPTIONS
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Disturbing the Peace
In Chapter 3, we discussed the essentials of Autoconf—how to bootstrap a new or existing project and how to understand some of the basic aspects of configure.ac files. In this chapter, we'll cover some of the more complex Autoconf macros. We'll begin by learning how to substitute our own variables into template files (e.g., Makefile.in) and how to define our own preprocessor definitions from within the configuration ...
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