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- <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
- <para><command>autoconf</command> is a tool for producing shell scripts
- that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many
- kinds of Unix-like systems. The configuration scripts it produces are
- independent -- running them does not require the autoconf program.</para>
- <para><command>autoheader</command> is a tool for creating template files
- of C #define statements for configure to use.</para>
- <para><command>autom4te</command> is a wrapper for the M4 macro
- processor.</para>
- <para><command>autoreconf</command> comes in handy when there are a lot
- of autoconf-generated configure scripts around. The program runs autoconf and
- autoheader repeatedly (where appropriate) to remake the autoconf configure
- scripts and configuration header templates in a given directory tree.</para>
- <para><command>autoscan</command> can help to create a
- <filename>configure.in</filename> file for a software package. It examines
- the source files in a directory tree, searching them for common portability
- problems and creates a <filename>configure.scan</filename> file that serves as
- as a preliminary <filename>configure.in</filename> for the package.</para>
- <para><command>autoupdate</command> modifies a
- <filename>configure.in</filename> file that still calls autoconf macros
- by their old names to use the current macro names.</para>
- <para><command>ifnames</command> can be helpful when writing a
- <filename>configure.in</filename> for a software package. It prints the
- identifiers that the package uses in C preprocessor conditionals. If a package
- has already been set up to have some portability, this program can help to
- determine what <userinput>configure</userinput> needs to check. It can fill
- in some gaps in a <filename>configure.in</filename> file generated by
- autoscan.</para>
- </sect2>
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