Is aclocal.m4 generic?


 
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Old 06-23-2009
Is aclocal.m4 generic?

can we copy higher version aclocal to our software.
Is there any good book for automake,aclocal.m4,configure.sub,configure.guess that explains clearly about how they are related , how to modify them etc


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Gopi

Last edited by Gopi Krishna P; 06-23-2009 at 09:59 AM..
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Old 06-23-2009
To answer the first question. Yes you can.

There is an online book GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
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