Compile time filesystem access?

[Danni Coy]

configure scripts are usually part of the automake build system which used
to be the standard on linux maybe 5 years ago I think it went out of favour
roughly the same time as cvs.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:

> Aren't those configure scripts generate by some other tool :)
>>
>
> Maybe. I never digged that deep into build processes. After some time I
> got myself to write Makefiles, but that's about it. I see names like
> automake, m4, configure etc. pop up now and then and have no idea what role
> each plays. They just get the job done somehow and check which C standard
> library is used, what compiler and other useful traits to cover the
> differences between systems.
>
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