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The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 450 macros for GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the Internet. Every single one of those macros can be re-used without imposing any restrictions whatsoever on the licensing of the generated configure script. In particular, it is possible to use all those macros in configure scripts that are meant for non-free software. This policy is unusual for a Free Software Foundation project. The FSF firmly believes that software ought to be free, and software licenses like the GPL are specifically designed to ensure that derivative work based on free software must be free as well. In case of Autoconf, however, an exception has been made, because Autoconf is at such a pivotal position in the software development tool chain that the benefits from having this tool available as widely as possible outweigh the disadvantage that some authors may choose to use it, too, for proprietary software.

Contributions should be posted to the patch tracker. If you would like to submit a new macro, please make sure that the following topics are addressed in the submission:

  • synopsis that shows how the macro must be be called,
  • brief description of the macro's purpose,
  • list of authors (optionally with e-mail addresses),
  • licensing terms, and
  • m4 source code.

Macros can be submitted under any GPL-compatible free software license. The Free Software Foundation, however, recommends use of the all-permissive license for Autoconf macros.

Registration Date: Thu 05 Mar 2009 01:24:09 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature

 

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Noteworthy changes in release 2013.04.06
     posted by simons, Sat 06 Apr 2013 01:00:51 PM UTC - 0 replies

AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD and AX_PROG_CXX_FOR_BUILD have been simplified to require only AC_CANONICAL_HOST instead of AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7989>.

A substantially updated version of ...


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Noteworthy changes in release 2013.02.02
     posted by simons, Sat 02 Feb 2013 10:24:14 AM UTC - 0 replies

Support for AIX has been improved in AX_PTHREAD. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7911>.

AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM has been improved to work more reliable on non-GNU systems. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7921> for further details. ...


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Noteworthy changes in release 2012.11.14
     posted by simons, Wed 14 Nov 2012 08:58:36 AM UTC - 0 replies

The portability of AX_BOOST_SYSTEM and AX_BOOST_THREAD has been improved. See <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-archive-maintainers/2012-09/msg00026.html> for further details.

AX_COUNT_CPUS has been cleaned up. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7860> for further details.

Noteworthy changes in release 2012.09.08 (2012-09-08) [stable]
     posted by simons, Sat 08 Sep 2012 12:48:49 PM UTC - 0 replies

AX_BLAS has been extended to detect the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL). See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7807> for further details.

Several bugs and inconsistencies in AX_TRY_RUN_JAVA, AX_PROG_JAVA_WORKS, AX_CHECK_CLASS, and AX_PROG_JAVA have been fixed. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7835> for further details. ...


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