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 Introduction
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    This document describes the GNU configure and build systems.  It
 describes how autoconf, automake, libtool, and make fit together.  It
 also includes a discussion of the older Cygnus configure system.
 
    This document does not describe in detail how to use each of the
 tools; see the respective manuals for that.  Instead, it describes
 which files the developer must write, which files are machine generated
 and how they are generated, and where certain common problems should be
 addressed.
 
    This document draws on several sources, including the autoconf
 manual by David MacKenzie ( autoconf overview (autoconf)Top.),
 the automake manual by David MacKenzie and Tom Tromey ( automake
 overview (automake)Top.), the libtool manual by Gordon Matzigkeit
 ( libtool overview (libtool)Top.), and the Cygnus configure
 manual by K. Richard Pixley.
 

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