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Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scriptsto scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt thepackages the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconfcreates Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists theoperating the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls.
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